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.

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

La Fornarina: A Beautiful Woman, the Myth of the Artist and the Muse — Apollon Undergraduate Journal

JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES, RAPHAEL ET LA FORNARINA, Old Master Drawings, Old Master Drawings

Raphael and La Fornarina - Wikipedia

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Raphaël and the Fornarina - Joseph Mathieu Lambert (1804-1861) - Ref.73761

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Raphael and La Fornarina – Dr Lizzie Rogers

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Raphaël et la Fornarina XXIV from Séries 347 by Pablo Picasso on artnet

Portrait of a Young Woman [detail: 1] (or La Fornarina) by Raphael Reproduction For Sale

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Pablo Picasso, Raphaël et la fornarina XVIII (1973), Available for Sale