Maria mit Kind (Kopie nach)

This Madonna with Child is identified as a copy after Raphael, likely made by a later hand working from one of the small devotional Madonnas from Raphael's Florentine period (c.1504–1508), when he produced a series of intimate Virgin-and-Child compositions including the Madonna del Granduca and the Cowper Madonna. The practice of copying Raphael's Madonnas was universal in European art education from the sixteenth century onward, and such copies served both as study exercises and as devotional objects in private homes and churches. The high quality of execution suggests a trained artist rather than a student exercise.

The composition follows Raphael's Florentine formula: the Virgin's face inclined toward the Child, the figures set before a neutral or landscape background, the modelling smooth and classicising. The copyist maintains the pyramidal figure group and the gentle sfumato of the original, though individual brushwork may differ from Raphael's own fine-hatched technique.