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Adolphe Braun (1812-77)
The Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels ['The Sistine Madonna'] 1860-1877
Carbon print | 76.7 x 56.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851062
![The Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels ['The Sistine Madonna']](https://www.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/7/9/743614-1521458112.jpg?itok=rL-i9NN8 "The Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels ['The Sistine Madonna']")
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A photograph of the so-called Sistine Madonna, a painting by Raphael now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (inv. no.93). Not listed in Ruland's Raphael Collection catalogue (1876).
Showing the full-length Virgin standing on clouds and holding the Christ Child in her arms, flanked by St Pope Sixtus on the left and St Barbara on the right, with two upward-looking winged cherubs at lower centre; the composition is framed by open curtains.Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
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Medium and techniques
Carbon print
Measurements
76.7 x 56.4 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.80 A.XL.1a(add)Bibliographic reference(s)
Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 pp. 107-116, no. 53
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