The Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels ['The Sistine Madonna'] c.1798-1850
Lithograph | 87.1 x 65.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851065
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A lithograph after the so-called Sistine Madonna, a painting by Raphael now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (inv. no.93). State with some lettering, but without title. With the lithographer's signature in pencil at lower right.
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 (c.1853-76)
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Lithograph
Measurements
87.1 x 65.9 cm (sheet of paper)
73.6 x 55.1 cm (image)
Markings
annotation: Louis Zoellner. [front, lower right, in pencil]
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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. 107-116, no. 53