Life and Legend of the Virgin Mary
Life and Legend of the Virgin Mary
The Annunciation
c.1847-1876Aquatint with crayon-manner, printed in sepia | 36.2 x 50.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851372
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
- Life of the Virgin Mary
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Religion & Theology
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))
