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Life and Legend of the Virgin Mary

Life and Legend of the Virgin Mary

CHARLES JOSEPH ÉDOUARD ROSOTTE (B. 1827)

The Annunciation

c.1847-1876

Aquatint with crayon-manner, printed in sepia | 36.2 x 50.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851372

A print after a cartoon by Raphael now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.3860). Lettered with production details; with the blind stamp of the Chalcographie du Louvre at lower centre (variant of Lugt 1695).

The cartoon was made for the 'Annunciation', the left scene of the predella of the so-called 'Oddi Altarpiece' (or 'Pala Oddi) which was painted by Raphael in c.1502-03 and is now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City (inv. no.335).
  • Creator(s)

    Charles Joseph Édouard Rosotte (b. 1827) (etcher)

    Charles Joseph Édouard Rosotte (b. 1827) (printmaker)

    After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    Paris : Calcographie du Louvre, Musées Impériaux (publisher)

  • 36.2 x 50.2 cm (sheet of paper)

    27.9 x 41.8 cm (image)

    34.0 x 47.9 cm (platemark)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Life of the Virgin Mary
            • Annunciation
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.145, no.51 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

    p.586, no.53 (Knab/Mitsch/Oberhuber 1983 : Raffaello. I disegni 1983 : I disegni. (Catalogo dei Disegni a cura di Oberhuber, Ferino Pagden, Huber), Florence 1983)

    pp.24-8, no.18 (Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte))