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The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist [‘The Alba Madonna’] after 1853
Albumen print | 28.7 cm (diameter) (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850854
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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 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
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Albumen print
Measurements
28.7 cm (diameter) (sheet of paper)
Other number(s)
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.68 A.XXV.1b(add)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