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Charles Paul Jean Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart, Count de Saint-Morys (1743-95)
Two studies of the Virgin and Child c.1763-1765
Etching | 21.5 x 17.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850900
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A reversed facsimile of a drawing by Raphael (c.1505) now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.3856 v). Photographs of this drawing can be found at: RCIN 850898 and 851250.
At right is a study for a Virgin and Child composition. At left is a sketch copied from Michelangelo’s Taddei Tondo, a circular relief sculpture now housed in the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Ruland (1876) did not describe this drawing as a copy after Michelangelo and associated it with Raphael’s Bridgewater Madonna (c.1507) currently on loan to the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (inv. no.NGL 065.46) from the Duke of Sutherland Collection.Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Etching
Measurements
21.5 x 17.5 cm (sheet of paper)
20.3 x 16.5 cm (platemark)
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Bibliographic reference(s)
Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte) pp.48-50, no. 37
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p. 155, no. 93v
