The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist [‘La Belle Jardinière’] after 1860
Carbon print | 78.6 x 53.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850797
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A photograph of the so-called La Belle Jardinière, a painting by Raphael (1508) now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.602). Not listed in Ruland's Raphael Collection catalogue (1876).
Showing the seated Virgin looking at the standing Child while supporting Him, with the Infant St John the Baptist kneeling down at her side holding a cross staff.Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
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Carbon print
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78.6 x 53.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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Ruland : Ruland, C., 1876. The Works of Raphael Santi da Urbino as represented in the Raphael Collection in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, formed by the Prince Consort, 1853-1861 and completed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Weimar – Ruland p.65 A.XIX.2a(add)Bibliographic reference(s)
Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 pp. 157-263, no. 35