Raphael and the Fornarina

This composition, the first of six versions, articulates Ingres’s conception of the art of painting. For him, the oeuvre of the Renaissance artist Raphael was the pinnacle of artistic achievement. Here Ingres draws on Raphael’s relationship with the woman known as “La Fornarina” (the Little Baker), which, according to the biographer Giorgio Vasari, led to the young artist’s death from an excess of lovemaking. Raphael has just sketched the famous portrait of her, and his beloved subject sits on his knee. But Raphael has eyes only for his own creation, which, like Ingres’s representation of its model, meets the viewer’s gaze. This triangle of glances is complicated by the presence of the Virgin in Raphael’s Madonna of the Chair, seen against the back wall, where she resembles the artist’s lover.

Raphaël et la Fornarina. VII: Le Pape est là, assis, from the 347 Series, Modern Discoveries, 2023

Fornarina After Raphael Engraving Per Celoni Printing Of 1864 Italy

La Fornarina, Raphael, Bernardi, Jacopo

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Study for Raphael and the Fornarina(?)

Raphael and the Fornarina XII: The Pope Feels Cuckolded on His Throne, Picasso museum Barcelona

Raphael and the Fornarina - CACompany

Love with Raphael & La Fornarina » The Muse Life

Raphael and the fornarina hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy

Study for Raphael and The Fornarina by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - 18 x 24 Premium Canvas Print: Posters & Prints

Prints & Illustrated Books, Sale n°3183, Lot n°31

La Fornarina, 1814. Creators: Raphael Morghen available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Photo Gifts

Pablo Picasso, Raphael et la Fornarina V. avec voyour écartant le rideau (1968), Available for Sale