Holy Family with the Infant Baptist c.1560
Engraving | 33.6 x 25.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851129
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A print after a painting currently untraced, anciently thought to be by Raphael. Signed with monogram at lower left next to the open book (see Nagler, I, no.1456). Lettered with devotional text below image. Not mentioned in Bartsch (see Bartsch, XV, pp.520ff).
Showing the seated Virgin supporting the standing Christ Child on her leg, who holds an apple in His right hand; with the Infant Baptist standing at right and St Joseph looking on with his head resting on his hand at left; in an interior with a window on the right.Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Engraving
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33.6 x 25.9 cm (sheet of paper)
31.3 x 24.1 cm (image)
31.1 x 24.2 cm (platemark)
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