The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist (The Madonna of the Long Thigh)

c. 1518/1519

Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael

Associated Names
Marcantonio Raimondi

Artist, Roman, c. 1480 - c. 1534

Raphael

Artist After, Marchigian, 1483 - 1520

The image shows four figures in a serene setting among classical ruins. A woman with a baby on her lap is seated on the right. On the left, an older man with a donkey sits on a raised surface. In the middle, a young boy reaches towards the baby. The background features partially ruined buildings with arched doorways and windows.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 41.1 × 27.5 cm (16 3/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1963.11.178

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 57

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Pierre-Jean Mariette II [1634-1716], Paris (Lugt 1788-1790). Kupferstichkabinett des Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (Lugt 1257e)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1987

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., November 1987.

2020

  • Raphael and His Circle: Prints and Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2020, no cat.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

Inscriptions

recto: below image, at right, in brown ink: P. Mariette (Lugt 1788-1790); verso: at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: Rafael / MK 36979

Markings

recto: none; verso: Kupferstichkabinett des Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (Lugt 1257e)

Watermarks

bunch of grapes

Wikidata ID

Q47533940

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