Raphael and La Fornarina

Raphael and La Fornarina is a painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, known in five versions.

The Fogg version.

The painting belongs to his troubador style period and shows Raphael and his first love, La Fornarina. Ingres originally planned to produce a series of paintings of episodes from Raphael's life, but he only produced two paintings - the other is that of cardinal Bibbiena offering to marry his niece to Raphael.

Versions

  • 1813, at Riga, disappeared in 1941
  • 1814, Fogg Art Museum
  • two other versions in private collections
  • latest version, Columbus Museum of Art

Bibliography

  • Daniel Ternois, Ingres, Paris, Fernand Nathan, 1980 (ISBN 2-09-284-557-8)
  • Robert Rosenblum, Ingres, Paris, Cercle d'Art, coll. « La Bibliothèque des Grands Peintres », 1986 (ISBN 2-7022-0192-X)
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