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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of The Small Cowper Madonna
Raphael (artist)
Italian, 1483 - 1520
The Small Cowper Madonna, c. 1505
oil on panel
overall: 59.5 x 44 cm (23 7/16 x 17 5/16 in.) framed: 86.2 x 71.4 x 8.3 cm (33 15/16 x 28 1/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
Widener Collection
1942.9.57
On View
From the Tour: Raphael
Object 2 of 7
1916Widener 1916, unpaginated, repro.
1923Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923 (unpaginated) unpaginated, repro.
1931Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 148, repro.
1935Tietze, Hans. Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika. Vienna, 1935: 78, repro. (English ed., Masterpieces of European Painting in America. New York, 1939: 78, repro.).
1937Jewell, Edward Alden. "Mellon's Gift." Magazine of Art 30, no. 2 (February 1937): 82.
1941Duveen 1941, fig. 134.
1942Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 6.
1944Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 44, color repro.
1948Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 16, repro.
1951Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 56-58, repro.
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 34
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 132, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 107
1966Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:126, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 95, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 282, repro.
1978King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 28, pl. 8.
1979Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:396-397, II:pl. 281
1982Pedretti, Carlo. Raffaello. Bologna, 1982: 29.
1982Oberhuber, Konrad. Raffaello. Milan, 1982:38-42, no. 42, repro.
1983Brown, David Alan. "Raphael's 'Small Cowper Madonna' and the 'Madonna of the Meadow:' Their Technique and Leonard Sources." Artibus et Historiae 8 (1983):9-26, repro.
1983Mulazzani, Germano. Raffaello. Milan, 1983:38+, repro.
1983Knab, Eckhart, Erwin Mitsch and Konrad Oberhuber. Raphael: Die Zeichnungen. Stuttgart, 1983:91-92.
1983Jones, Roger and Nicholas Penny. Raphael. New Haven and London, 1983: 207-208, repro.
1983Cuzin, Jean-Pierre. Raphaël: vie et oeuvre. Fribourg, 1983:74, repro.
1984Raffaello a Firenze. Exh. cat. Palazzo Pitti, Florence, 1984:43.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 174, no. 197, color repro.
1984Dalli Regoli, Gigetta. La preveggenza della vergine. Pisa, 1984: 19
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 326, repro.
1986Merrill, Ross M. "Examination and Treatment of the Small Cowper Madonna by Raphael at the National Gallery of Art." Studies in the History of Art 17 (1986):139-147, repro.
1986Gombrich, E. H. New Light on Old Masters. Studies in the Art of the Renaissance 4. Oxford, 1986: 117-118, repro.
1986Christensen, Carol. "Examination and Treatment of Paintings by Raphael at the National Gallery of Art." Studies in the History of Art 17 (1986):47-48, 50-52, repro.
1987Ettlinger, Leopold D and Helen S. Raphael. Oxford, 1987:48-51, repro.
1987Walker, Richard W. "American's Imperial Collector's." Art News 86 (November 1987):157.
1991Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 195.
1992Penny, Nicholas. "Raphael's 'Madonna dei garofani' rediscovered." The Burlington Magazine 134 (February 1992): 73-74, repro.
1992Brown, David Alan. "Raphael, Leonardo, and Perugino" in Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael in Renaissance Florence from 1500-1508. Washington, 1992:37-38, 47-48, 51, n.22, repro.
1994Beck, James H. Raphael. New Yokl, 1994: 22.
1995Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. New York, 1995: 686, fig. 18-5, repro. (Rev. ed. 1999: 694, fig. 18-14, repro.)
1996Meyer zur Capellen, Jürg. Raphael in Florence. London, 1996: 154, no.93-96, repro.
2000Kirsh, Andrea, and Levenson, Rustin S. Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies. Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies, vol. 1. New Haven, 2000: 9-10, fig. 4, 160-161, fig. 162, 191-192, fig. 202-203.
2001Meyer zur Capellen, Jürg. Raphael: A Critical Catalogue of His Paintings. Landshut, 2001:no. 23, repro.
2004Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 82, no. 57, color repro.

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