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Adolphe Braun (1812-77)
The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist [‘The Madonna of the Blue Diadem’] c.1860-76
Carbon print | 46.0 x 33.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850887
![The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist [`The Madonna of the Blue Diadem?]](https://col.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/6/d/742663-1521029314.jpg?itok=6v0o6S1f "The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist [`The Madonna of the Blue Diadem?]")
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A photograph of 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). The painting has long been attributed to Raphael, an opinion also shared by Ruland (1876).
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
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)
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Medium and techniques
Carbon print
Measurements
46.0 x 33.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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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. 251-254, no. A9
