The Virgin and Sleeping Child with the Infant Baptist [‘Madonna del Velo’]

c.1823-1866

Etching and engraving | 47.3 x 37.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850788

An engraving after a painting catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the possession of M.I.I. Wuyts, Antwerp.

The painting is one of a number reproducing a composition traditionally known as the ‘Madonna del Velo’, the original version of which (currently untraced) is thought to have been painted by Raphael’s workshop after a design by the master dating c.1510-12 (see Bibliographic References).

Showing the Christ Child sleeping on the left; the Virgin looks at Him while lifting the veil over His head with her right hand and supporting the Infant Baptist with her left, who points at the Child; in a landscape.

Creator(s)

Friedrich Wagner (1803-76) (engraver)

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

After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
47.3 x 37.1 cm (sheet of paper)

34.6 x 28.3 cm (image)

44.8 x 33.5 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
- Science, Medicine and Technology
  
  Industries, Crafts and Trades
  
  Clothing
  
  Headgear
  
  Veils
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp. 278-279, no. A17 (Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 )

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The Virgin and Sleeping Child with the Infant Baptist [‘Madonna del Velo’]

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