Raphael and La Fornarina

The Fogg version.

Raphael and La Fornarina is a painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, known in five versions.

The painting belongs to his troubador style period and shows Raphael and his first love, La Fornarina. Ingres originally planned to produce a series of paintings of episodes from Raphael's life, but he only produced two paintings - the other is that of cardinal Bibbiena offering to marry his niece to Raphael.

Versions

• 1813, at Riga, disappeared in 1941
• 1814, Fogg Art Museum
• two other versions in private collections
• latest version, Columbus Museum of Art

Bibliography

• Daniel Ternois, Ingres, Paris, Fernand Nathan, 1980 (ISBN 2-09-284-557-8)
• Robert Rosenblum, Ingres, Paris, Cercle d'Art, coll. « La Bibliothèque des Grands Peintres », 1986 (ISBN 2-7022-0192-X)