Andrei Denier (1820-92)
The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist [‘The Alba Madonna’] c.1860
Salted paper print | 28.5 cm (diameter) (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850852
![The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist [`The Alba Madonna?]](https://col.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/f/7/700977-1501860828.jpg?itok=Emt-fYuX "The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist [`The Alba Madonna?]")
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A photograph of the so-called Alba Madonna, a painting by Raphael (c.1509-11) now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (inv. no.1937.1.24). In Ruland's Raphael Collection catalogue (1876), the painting was described as being then in the Imperial Gallery of the Hermitage, St Petersburg.
Showing the Virgin seating on the ground and holding the Christ Child on her right leg, who reaches for the cross-staff held by the Infant Baptist who kneels down on the left.Provenance
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1859-60)
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Salted paper print
Measurements
28.5 cm (diameter) (sheet of paper)
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Bibliographic reference(s)
Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 pp. 82-88, no. 50
