The Madonna del Granduca

Details

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael
The Madonna del Granduca
oil on canvas
85.1 x 56.7 cm
In a gilt cassetta frame

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Lot Essay

The prototype of circa 1504, on panel, 84.4 x 55.9 cm, is in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence, inv. no.178 (M. Gregori, Uffizi e Pitti - i dipinti delle gallerie Fiorentine 1994, p.166, fig.205). It was named after Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Habsburg, who acquired it in 1799.

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