Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-1534) Madonna and... Lot 37

Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-1534) Madonna and Child with St. Joseph and St. John the Baptist (known as The Virgin with the Long Thigh). Engraved after Raphael. 265x402. Delaborde 12; Bartsch 57. Very fine and brilliant proof on laid paper (watermark: fleur-de-lys in a circle), trimmed to the subject. Median horizontal drying fold and other traces of folds on verso. Small tear in lower right corner. Minor thinning at edges of verso leaf. Minor soiling and foxing, mainly visible on verso. A short tear at foot, formerly restored. Joint: Marco Dente of Ravenna (c. 1493-1527). Copy of the same subject. Burin. 265x407. Bartsch 58; Passavant 5. Proof on laid paper (watermark: crown surmounted by a star), late, a little gray, trimmed on the subject, the donkey on the left replaced by a barrel bearing the engraver's monogram. On verso, initials of E.-T. Devaulx and the date "1876" in pen and sepia ink. Ex-coll. Winfield Robbins (New York, 1841-1910, Lugt not described). Set. 2 p.