Explore the History of this artwork, Madonna with the Blue Diadem.
Legend has it that at one time the panel, split in two, was used to cover casks in Pescia. Once found, they are said to have been expertly joined.  There is also a different version where the panel was split into three pieces to make a screen, which was made whole again.By the later part of the 16th century, it had been in the Chateauneuf Collection, Paris and descended to his heir, the Marquis de la Vallière.
In 1620 the painting was owned by the Marquis de la Vallière, Secretary of State, as part of the La Vallière Collection in Paris. In 1713, Prince Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse, owned the painting and from him it passed in 1728 into the collection of the Prince de Carignan.From at least 1728 to 1743 it was in the possession of Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignan.  After he died, the painting fell to his son Louis de Carignan and painter Rigauld mediated the sale in 1742 dispersed to Louis XV in 1743.The last Raphael painting to enter the French Royal Collection, it was acquired  from the Prince of Carignan in 1742 dispersed to Louis XV in 1743.
Pescia Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignan Paris Raphael