AFTER RAPHAEL | Madonna della Sedia

The canvas is relined. Overall this picture presents very well to the naked eye and is clean and should be hung in its current condition. UV light reveals hardly any retouches. There are a couple of old retouches in the craquelure at the left but this is not visible to the naked eye. The flesh tones of the figures as well as the colored clothing are all well preserved and without any losses or damages. In an elaborately carved and guilt wood frame, with some minor chips to the gilding notably at the top of the frame.
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Depicting one of the most iconic images of the love between a mother and child, this refined canvas follows Raphael’s famed Madonna della Sedia in the Galleria Palatina, Florence.¹  It is set within an elaborately carved giltwood frame that also closely emulates the original in Florence.  1. Inv. no. 151, oil on panel, diameter 71 cm.   See J. Meyer zur Capellen, Raphael. A Critical Catalogue of his Paintings. The Roman Religious Paintings, ca. 1508–1520, vol. II, Landshut 2005, pp. 137–143, cat. no. 57, reproduced.