Currently not on view
Virgin and Child with Saint John (Madonna of the Veil)
school of Raphael, 1483–1520; born Rome, Italy; died Urbino, Italy
y783
Information
Title
Virgin and Child with Saint John (Madonna of the Veil)
Maker
school of Raphael
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
132 x 110 cm (51 15/16 x 43 5/16 in.)
frame: 159.5 x 137.5 x 16.5 cm (62 13/16 x 54 1/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Gerard B. Lambert, Class of 1908, in memory of Professor Howard Crosby Butler, in 1925
Object Number
y783
Place Made
Europe, Italy
Culture
Type
Materials
Prince de Conti; Paris; in possession, 1777.
Duc de Choiseul; Paris; sold 1787.
LeBrun; Paris; bought 1787.
Welbore Ellis Agar; England; in posession 1802-3; sold 1806.
Earl of Grosvenor; London; bought 1806; in possession 1860.
Duke of Westminster; London; in possession 1864-1924.
A.E. Newton; New York; 1925.
The Art Museum, Princeton University; Princeton; 1935-.
Duc de Choiseul; Paris; sold 1787.
LeBrun; Paris; bought 1787.
Welbore Ellis Agar; England; in posession 1802-3; sold 1806.
Earl of Grosvenor; London; bought 1806; in possession 1860.
Duke of Westminster; London; in possession 1864-1924.
A.E. Newton; New York; 1925.
The Art Museum, Princeton University; Princeton; 1935-.
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- G. Firestone, "The sleeping Christ Child in Italian Renaissance representations of the Madonna", Marsyas 2 (1942)., p. 55
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- B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 119
- Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, "The Joy of the Bridegroom's Friend: smiling faces in Fra Filippo, Raphael, and Leonardo", eds. Moshe Barasch and Lucy Freeman Sandler, Art, the ape of nature: studies in honor of H. W. Janson, (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1981)., p. 200; fig. 6; p. 201; p. 208, note 44.
- David Alan Brown, Raphael and America: [exhibition catalogue] Washington, National Gallery of Art, [January 9 - May 8, 1983, (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1983). , p. 46; fig. 23
- Klara Garas, "Sammlungsgeschichtliche Beiträge zu Raffael: Raffael-Werke in Budapest", Bulletin du Musée hongrois des beaux-arts 60-61 (1983): p. 41-81., p. 64; fig. 50; p. 62-64
