Genre
A sacrifice
dated 1793Etching | RCIN 852354
An etching reproducing with some differences a drawing now in the Louvre, Paris (inv. no. 4315), where it is catalogued as a copy after Giovanni Francesco Penni. This print is lettered with the name of Raphael (identified as the inventor of this composition), signed and dated by the printmaker. Annotated on the verso.
Cordellier and Py (see Bibliographic References) catalogued this drawing as a copy from a lost drawing, perhaps by Penni, which, because of the subject, is comparable to certain scenes in grisailles on the vault of Heliodorus's Chamber at the Vatican.
The etching was made by Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys after the drawing, which was then in his possession. Vialart de Saint-Morys was a collector of Old Master drawings and amateur printmaker who published two groups of prints after drawings in his own collection, the first group dated 1780-89 and the second 1792-94.
Cordellier and Py (see Bibliographic References) catalogued this drawing as a copy from a lost drawing, perhaps by Penni, which, because of the subject, is comparable to certain scenes in grisailles on the vault of Heliodorus's Chamber at the Vatican.
The etching was made by Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys after the drawing, which was then in his possession. Vialart de Saint-Morys was a collector of Old Master drawings and amateur printmaker who published two groups of prints after drawings in his own collection, the first group dated 1780-89 and the second 1792-94.
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-1876)
