Jean Jacques Frilley and Raphael [Raffaello Santi]
The Virgin and Child
c. 1840
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching and aquatint, Plate: 121 × 120 mm. (4 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.11759
This image by Frilley, a noted engraver and draftsman who exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1824 to 1850, is based on a painting in the Musée du Louvre by the Italian Renaissance master Raphael. The time-honored theme of the Virgin Mary holding a book and the infant Jesus on her lap may have influenced Tanner’s conception of Christ Learning to Read.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris," December 7, 2005 - May 28, 2005.
Inscribed: RECTO: LL: "Raphael del." LWRC: "Museé du Louvre"; LR: "Frilley sculp."; VERSO: C: [Claghorn collector stamp]; (Graphite in diamond):
