Holy Families & Madonna and Child
Holy Families & Madonna and Child
EDUARD MANDEL (1810-82)
The Virgin and Child [‘The Colonna Madonna’]
dated 1855Etching and engraving | 63.8 x 45.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850816
An engraving after the so-called ‘Colonna Madonna’, a painting by Raphael (1507-08), when in the Royal Museum, Berlin. The painting is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (inv. no.248).
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.
According to Queen Victoria, the Colonna Madonna was Prince Albert's favourite painting by Raphael. He gave a porcelain copy of it to his wife as a present for Christmas 1858 (RCIN 404017); the back of plaque bears the inscription: “The Prince consort’s favorite picture 1861.”
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.
According to Queen Victoria, the Colonna Madonna was Prince Albert's favourite painting by Raphael. He gave a porcelain copy of it to his wife as a present for Christmas 1858 (RCIN 404017); the back of plaque bears the inscription: “The Prince consort’s favorite picture 1861.”
Creator(s)
Eduard Mandel (1810-82) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Eduard Mandel (1810-82) (designer)
Dusseldorf : Schulgen-Bettendorff (printer)
63.8 x 45.1 cm (sheet of paper)
28.0 x 20.8 cm (image)
43.3 x 32.8 cm (platemark)
LA MADONNA COLONNA.
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp. 264-266, no. 36 (Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 )
