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Last week, Sir Joseph Duveen purchased from Lady Desborough, after secret bidding had determined his offer of $875,000* to be the most advantageous, Raphael's Madonna and Child, painted in 1508, probably the most notable Raphael Madonna extant outside of museums...
...Lady Desborough, who had inherited the canvas indirectly from the third Earl Cowper who in turn had bought it from the Niccolini Palace in Florence 150 years ago, had dealt with Sir Joseph before. In 1913 she sold him the "small Cowper Madonna," also a Raphael, which now hangs in the Widener collection at Philadelphia...
...reporting the news of the sale it was not too extraordinary that the Hearst syndicate, raising the price with habitual exaggeration to $1,250,000, should have described the painting as "Raphael's masterpiece, Madonna and Child . . ."; or that the Daily News, Manhattan tabloid, should have printed a reproduction of a Raphael Madonna which was not the one Duveen had bought, in the apparently idiotic assurance that there exists only one Madonna and that Raphael painted...
...Raphael is pre-eminently the painter of Madonnas. Before his time the vogue for this form of religious representation flourished, after him other painters carried it on. But Raphael Sanzio, who died on Good Friday when he was exactly 37 years old, more than for his frescoes and his figure paintings from mythology, his portraits and historical panoramas, is remembered for being the man who made the best pictures of the Virgin Mary and her son. His portraits of her cool and smiling face have been more often copied than any other painter's; notably the Madonna...
...Prof. Hawkins, 1 Harvard 3 Mr. Kelsey, 2, 4 Harvard 5 Mr. Leith, 3 Harvard 6 Mr. Salmon, 5 Harvard 6 Mr. Parcell, 6 Harvard 2 French 2 Mr. Ham, 1 New Lect. Hall Mr. Chapard, 4 New Lect. Hall Mr. Salmon 8, 9 New Lect. Hall Mr. Raphael, 13, 17 New Lect. Hall Mr. Raiche, 5 Memorial Hall Mr. Parcell, 12 Memorial Hall Mr. Pillionnel, 7 Memorial Hall Mr. Roberts, 16 Memorial Hall Mr. Francon, 2, 14 Emerson D Mr. Saintonge, 3, 10 Emerson D Mr. Mellor, 6, 11 Emerson J Mr. Montsie, 15 Emerson J French 22hf Sever...