Oil on canvas portraying part of Raphael’s huge painting “The Sistine Madonna”, kept at the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden, dated 1512.
This painting is part of the revival of religious art that began during the Restoration in France.
The greatest painters and pupils copied or drew inspiration from the Old Masters, either for themselves or for orders.
Original canvas, frame and stretcher.
France, circa 1820
111x 99 with frame