# Study for the Esterházy Madonna [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RAFFAELLO Sanzio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen and brown ink over black chalk, 287 x 192 mm ## Commentary Between 1504 and 1508, Raphael made several drawings for the Virgin and Child, but only a single compositional study for the Esterházy Madonna has come down to us. His pen drawing preserved in the Uffizi, Florence, gives the complete image and corresponds almost exactly with the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/raphael/2firenze/2/42ester.html'\)" href="/html/r/raphael/2firenze/2/42ester.html">panel painting.</a> The main differences are that in the painted version , the horizon has been lowered, a river runs across the hills to the left, and the Tuscan landscape has been replaced by classical ruins. Outlines in the drawing are pricked for transfer. From infrared reflectograph it was concluded that there was no direct transfer from the drawing to the panel, the drawing may have been an intervening study. ## Related artworks - [A Group of Nude Men]() - [A Group of Warriors]() - [A nude man advancing to the right \(verso\)]() - [A Soldier before the Cell of St Peter]() - [A Youthful Warrior \(recto\)]() - [Adam and Eve \(ceiling panel\)]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aldobrandini Madonna \(Garvagh Madonna\)]() - [Allegory \(The Knight's Dream\)]() - [Amorini at play \(verso\)]() - [An Angel]() - [Angel \(fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()