After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist c.1650-1750
Etching | 8.3 x 5.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850893
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An etching after a painting catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the Bridgewater Gallery, London. The painting appears to be a replica the so-called Madonna of the Blue Diadem, a painting generally attributed to Raphael’s workshop (possibly G.F. Penni or Giulio Romano) housed in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. 603; see RCIN 850887 for it).
Showing the Virgin lifting a veil over the sleeping Christ Child with the Infant Baptist kneeling down in adoration on the right; in a landscape.Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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8.3 x 5.8 cm (sheet of paper)
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