Holy Families & Madonna and Child
Holy Families & Madonna and Child
AFTER A WORK COPYING THE CIRCLE OF RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
The Virgin and Child with Saints
c.1853-76Albumen print | 22.1 x 18.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851081
A photograph of a painting formerly owned by Lord Methuen and currently at Corsham Court, Wiltshire. The photographed picture is an early copy of the so-called ‘Madonna dell’Impannata’, a painting generally attributed to Raphael's workshop after a design by the master (c.1513-16) now in the Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence (inv. no.94). A photograph of the ‘Madonna dell’Impannata’ can be found at RCIN 851074.
Showing the standing Virgin receiving the Christ Child from St Elizabeth (?) who is seating alongside a female saint on the left, with the young John the Baptist pointing at the Child on the right; in an interior, with a window in the right background.
Creator(s)
After a work copying the circle of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
22.1 x 18.1 cm (sheet of paper)
Acquired for 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. 144-149, no. 58 (Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 )
