Holy Families & Madonna and Child
Holy Families & Madonna and Child
ANTONIO PERFETTI (1792-1872)
The Virgin and Child [‘The Large Cowper Madonna’]
c.1812-1850Engraving | 41.7 x 29.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850810
An engraving after the so-called ‘Large Cowper Madonna’, a painting by Raphael (1508) now in the National Gallery, Washington DC (inv. no.25). Proof with some lettering and dedicatee's coat of arms.
Showing the seated Virgin holding the Child Christ on her lap, who grasps His mother’s bodice while looking at the viewer. Ruland catalogued the painting as being in the collection of the Earl Cowper, Penshanger, at that time.
Showing the seated Virgin holding the Child Christ on her lap, who grasps His mother’s bodice while looking at the viewer. Ruland catalogued the painting as being in the collection of the Earl Cowper, Penshanger, at that time.
Creator(s)
Antonio Perfetti (1792-1872) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Pietro Ermini (active 1799-1820) (designer)
41.7 x 29.5 cm (sheet of paper)
26.0 x 18.1 cm (image)
36.7 x 25.2 cm (platemark)
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. 272-276, no. 39 (Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 )
