FRANCESCO VILLAMENA (1566-1626)

The Virgin and Child with Saints [‘The Madonna dell’Impannata’]

dated 1611

Engraving | 43.6 x 30.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851076

A print after 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). Lettered state with production details and dedication. Annotated in ink at lower right.

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)

Francesco Villamena (1566-1626) (engraver)

After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

D. Nicolao Guicciardino (dedicatee)

After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

Francesco Villamena (1566-1626) (dedicator)

Subject(s)

Saint Elizabeth

Blessed Virgin Mary
annotation: 5 [?] [front, beneath the left corner of the image, in ink]
43.6 x 30.3 cm (sheet of paper)

40.0 x 29.4 cm (image)

43.3 x 30.0 cm (platemark)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Place of Production
Rome [Lazio]
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
  Religions and faiths
  Christianity
  Devotional Images of Christ
  Virgin & Child
  Life of Christ
  Infancy of Christ
  Christ Child
Object type(s)
Bibliographic reference(s)

Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 pp. 144-149, no. 58

Other number(s)

Ruland p.81 A.XLI.3

The Virgin and Child with Saints [‘The Madonna dell’Impannata’]

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