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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Raphael. The drawing is dark, made with charcoal. It shows a woman, the Madonna, looking downwards and holding a naked infant Jesus in her right arm. The child is smiling and holding his right hand up to his mother's shoulder. Lines are emanating from the head of the child.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"6.
RAPHAEL
(b. 1483; d. 1520)
CARTOON FOR MADONNA AND CHILD
British Museum, 1894. 7. 21. 1. Brought to England from Perugia early in the nineteenth century, and bought, in a very damaged condition, by the pastel-painter Charles Brocky, who repaired it; later in the possession of Messrs. P. & D. Colnaghi, who published a facsimile in lithograph by Thomas Fairland in 1843; thereafter in the Collection of Col. Sterling, of Glentyan, and in 1894 acquired by the British Museum. See note by Sir Sidney Colvin in second edition of the Guide to and Exhibition of Drawings and Sketches by Old Masters (British Museum, 1895, No. 125). Charcoal, pricked for transfer. 79.5 x 52 cm. (27 3/4 x 20 1/2 in.).
In the National Gallery the unfinished Madonna, bequeathed by Miss Makintosh, commonly called the Madonna of the Tower (from the Orléans, Hope, and Rogers Collections), has been generally accepted as a Raphael, and the relation between this and the magnificent cartoon in the British Museum is manifest; in this last the rough indication of the general design is a sketch, but the treatment of the heads is intense and almost Leonardesque and full of a sense of entranced and ardent life. Unlike most of Raphael's Madonnas, the hair is not parted on the forehead, but thrown back and held by a band, as it is in the St. Catherine in the Madonna de San Sisto and in the Galatea in the Farnesina Fresco; despite this detail, and owing to surviving influences of Leonardo and even Fra Bartolomeo, the present writer would date the cartoon about 1512; there are points of similarity between the type of the Virgin and some of the Muses in the background of the Parnassus.
C. R."
Technique: REPRODUCTION
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Raphael, Cartoon for Madonna and Child (LC 1131/6). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.105370 | Go to resource |
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