RAPHAEL - Raffaello Santi or Sanzio (After) 1483 - 1520 The Holy Family of Francis I Gouache on paper. Back glued on panel (small gaps in the corners, small tears in the middle in the upper and lower in the middle in the upper and lower part; small gaps; small oxidations). Annotated on the reverse in black ink in capital letters: Marie-Louise Levasseur de Béçel (?) Pinx Anno 1701. H. 31,4 - L. 21 cm After the composition of Raphael (1518) from the former collection of Queen Claude of France in the Louvre Museum (INV. 604). The name of Levasseur De Becel appears as a handwritten Ex - Libris twice on a copy of Bossuet's Discours Universel (1681) dedicated to the Grand Dauphin.

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