Study for a Virgin and Child c.1800-1876
Engraving | 33.0 x 25.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850848
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A facsimile engraving of a study by Raphael (c.1509-11) now in the British Museum (inv. no.1866,0714.79). The drawing – which Ruland (1876) associated with Raphael’s Mackintosh Madonna now in the National Gallery, London (inv. no.NG 2069) – cannot be distinctively related to any known painting by the master.
Showing the heads of the Virgin and Child, with the Virgin looking downwards and the Child turning His head to the right.Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Medium and techniques
Engraving
Measurements
33.0 x 25.8 cm (sheet of paper)
28.0 x 22.8 cm (platemark)
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Bibliographic reference(s)
Italian Drawings [...] British Museum: Raphael and his circle: catalogue, 1962 / Philip Pouncey and J.A. Gere, London pp. 20-21, no. 24
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p. 202, no. 275