Raphael was especially esteemed for his Madonna and Child compositions
Ferdinand Jean de la Ferté Joubert (1810-84)
The Virgin and Child published 1835
Etching | 29.0 x 23.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850818
An outline-etching after a painting attributed on plate to Fra Bartolommeo, when in the Coesvelt Gallery, London. The painting is one of a number of copies of the so-called Colonna Madonna, a picture by Raphael (1507-08) now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (inv. no.248; a photograph of which is at RCIN 850815). Included in Collection of Pictures by W. G. Coesvelt, Esq of London, London 1836, plate 28.
Showing the Virgin holding a book in her left hand and supporting the Christ Child with her right arm, who sits on her lap and grasps her bodice while looking at the viewer; in a landscape.
Showing the Virgin holding a book in her left hand and supporting the Christ Child with her right arm, who sits on her lap and grasps her bodice while looking at the viewer; in a landscape.
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Creator(s)
Ferdinand Jean de la Ferté Joubert (1810-84) (etcher)
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Ferdinand Jean de la Ferté Joubert (1810-84) (designer)
Carpenter, James, & Son : Old Bond Street (publisher)
Subject(s)
Blessed Virgin Mary -
29.0 x 23.4 cm (sheet of paper)
13.7 cm (diameter) (image)
27.5 x 22.0 cm (platemark)
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Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Virgin & Child
- Life of Christ
- Infancy of Christ
- Christ Child
- Infancy of Christ
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.66 A.XXI.5
Bibliographic reference(s)
Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 pp. 264-266, no. 36
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