HOLY FAMILY WITH THE LAMB

Original 1817 16 1/4 inch x 13 inch Engraving titled THE HOLY FAMILY WITH THE LAMB

The Holy Family, St Joseph standing at right watching the Virgin who bends down to hold the infant Christ who sits on a lamb, after the painting by Raphael in the Malaspina collection.

Print by Giovita Garavaglia (1790 – 1835). An Italian engraver. Initially a pupil of Pietro Anderloni, who he helped engrave the medical depictions of Antonio Scarpa. He later worked with Giuseppe Longhi in the engravings of the Erodiade by Bernardino Luino, The Holy Family by Raphael, and a Portrait of Charles. he moved to Florence to work with the lithographer Luigi Bardi, engraving the David found at the Palazzo Pitti and originally painted by Guercino; a Child Jesus by Carlo Maratta, a Jacob by Appiani, and the Madonna della seggiola. He engraved the Magdalen by Carlo Dolci, and a Madonnina by Villardi, the painting of Beatrice Cenci by Guido Reni.

After Raphael (1483 – 1520). Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Inscription below image: “Raffaello da Urbino inv. / Giovita Garavaglia dis. ed inc. / All’Egregio Amatore delle Belle Arti”

The engraving is in good condition with the bottom trimmed slightly unevenly cutting into the lower text, a crease in the lower right corner and general age-related toning and minor defects from handling.