Raphael was especially esteemed for his Madonna and Child compositions
Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-68)
The Virgin and Child with St Elizabeth (?) and another female saint c.1860-76
Carbon print | 20.8 x 14.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851077
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1512) now in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RCIN 912742). The drawing is a study for 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 painting 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.
Showing the standing Virgin receiving the Christ Child from St Elizabeth (?) who is seating alongside a female saint on the left.
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Creator(s)
Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-68) (photographer)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Saint ElizabethBlessed Virgin Mary -
20.8 x 14.3 cm (sheet of paper)
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Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
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
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.81 A.XLI.4
Bibliographic reference(s)
Jacoby/Sonnabend 2012: edited by J. Jacoby and M. Sonnabend, Frankfurt/Main 2012 pp.121-3, no.13
P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London no. 0800
Clayton 1999 : Clayton, M. Raphael and his Circle. Drawings from Windsor Castle, London pp. 93-95, no. 23
Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 pp. 144-149, no. 58
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