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The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist c.1853-76
Albumen print | 19.2 x 25.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851205
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A photograph of a drawing now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.1895-9-15-626) thought to be a copy after a lost study by Raphael.
The composition is known through other existing copies, including another in the British Museum (inv. no.Ff. I-38), one in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.498E) and a third one catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the collection of the Academy in Milan, but currently untraced (see RCIN 851206).
The photograph shows the full-length Virgin, seated almost in profile to left, holding the naked Christ Child on her lap, with the Infant Baptist standing at left.Provenance
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Creator(s)
After a work previously attributed to (artist) -
Medium and techniques
Albumen print
Measurements
19.2 x 25.5 cm (sheet of paper)
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Bibliographic reference(s)
Catalogue of the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. v. P. Pouncey and J.A.Gere, Raphael and His Circle (1962); vol.1; pp.45-6, no.58