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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

AFTER A WORK PREVIOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

The Virgin and Child adored by a monk, with angels

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 26.7 x 19.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851306

A photograph of a drawing now in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem (inv. no.K I), previously ascribed to Raphael and now generally considered as by an artist from his studio (G.F. Penni?). The photograph shows a deacon kneeling on clouds while being surmounted by an angel holding the palm of the martyrdom and a crown (left), and the full-length Virgin holding the Christ Child on her right knee (top right). A study of a male figure with his right arm raised at lower right.
  • Creator(s)

    After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

  • 26.7 x 19.6 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Devotional Images of Christ
            • Virgin & Child
          • Angels, demons, devils, saints
            • Angels
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.274. no.246 (van Tuyll van Serooskerken 2000 : van Tuyll van Serooskerken, C., 2000. The Italian drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Teyler Museum.)