Holy Families & Madonna and Child
Holy Families & Madonna and Child
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (C. 1480-1534)
The Virgin and Child with Saints Anne and Elizabeth, and an angel ['The Virgin and the Cradle']
c.1520-5Engraving | 24.7 x 17.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851273
An engraving reproducing the so-called 'Virgin and the Cradle', a composition associated with paintings designed by Raphael between 1518-20 and executed by his workshop. Signed with an empty tablet at lower right. First state.
The print shows the full-length seated Virgin, holding the Christ Child with both hands, with Saint Elizabeth bending over the cradle at left and St Anne standing behind the Virgin with raised arms; an angel holding an amphora next to a water basin at right; in an interior.
Creator(s)
Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-1534) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
24.7 x 17.7 cm (sheet of paper)
24.5 x 17.4 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
- Virgin & Child with Saints
- Virgin & Child
- Angels, demons, devils, saints
- Angels
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Home economics
- Furniture & accessories
- Beds
- Cradles
- Beds
- Furniture & accessories
- Home economics
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.158, no.49 (entry by Innis H. Shoemaker) (Shoemaker/Broun 1981 : I. Shoemaker and E. Broun. The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi 1981 : Spencer Museum of Art; The Ackland Art Museum, 1981)
pp.208-09, no.XL.1 (entry by Stefania Massari) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
