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Title: A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the National loan exhibition, in aid of National gallery funds, held in the Grafton Galleries, London (1909-1910)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: National Loan Exhibition (1909-1910 : London, England) Cook, Herbert Frederick, Sir, 1868-1939 Brockwell, Maurice Walter, 1869-1958 Grafton Galleries (London, England)
Subjects: Art
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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n I, and whilst there enjoyedthe friendship of Pope Julius II, and, it is said, of Raphael and Michelangelo ;left Rome in 1512 for Vlterbo, where he resided till 1520; he died 1528. Raphaels style of painting at one part of his Roman period, 1510-12 N 07 (the epoch of Carondelets visit), is so akin to that of the Venetian Sebastiandel Piombo, that some modern authorities, including Mr. Berenson, prefer toconsider this work to be by the latter artist. A portrait of Ferry Carondelet is also included in the Madonna andChild u.ilh Saints, by Fra Bartolommeo, in the Cathedral at Besancon. SeeGruyer in Fra Bartolommeo et Albertinelli, in Les Artistes Celebres Series,i886, p. 42. At least three portraits of Jean Carondelet were painted, notalily that byMabuse, now in the Louvre (No. 1997). B. Berenson: Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, 1906, p. 120. Exhibited at Burlington House, Old Masters, 1882, No. 160 ; also at theNew Gallery, 1893 4, No. 243. Lent by the Duke of Grafton, K.G.132 98
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66RAPHAEL: 1483-1520 Umbriatt SchoolMADONNA AND CHILD THIS picture is sometimes called The Niccolini Madonna ; it isalso known as The Cowper Madonna of 1508.The Inf;\nt Christ is seated on a cushion in the Virgins lap,with His left hand grasping her bodice ; her left hand is raisednear His. The Madonna wears a red tunic, a blue mantle, and agauzy headdress. Sky background. Pentimenti in the painting ofthe Childs left hand are now noticeable. On the border of theMadonnas dress is the inscription in gold letters, now partlyillegible: M(D or CCCCCjVIII. R.U.PIN (i.e. 1508, Raphaelof Urbino Pinxit). Borders on mannerism in the forward, boyish expression of the Child ;the countenance of the Madonna is, however, extremely sweet.—Kugier:Handbook of Painting: The Italian Schools, 1855, vol. ii. p. 341. IVood. 3oi in. x 22 in. (0.774 x 0.559). Purchased out of the Corsini Palace, Florence, about 1780 by GeorgeNassau, third Earl Cowper, and taken out of Florence in the lining of hiscarriage.

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