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Mythology & Putti

Mythology & Putti

AFTER MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (C. 1480-1534)

The Judgment of Paris

after 1515

Engraving | 29.5 x 44.1 cm (actual print) (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851708

An anonymous copy after an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi (RCIN 851707: after a lost design by Raphael showing similarities to a grisaille fresco beneath the Parnassus in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Museums). Laid down on a backing sheet with annotations. Not in Ruland (1876). A copy by Marco da Ravenna at RCIN 851709.
  • Creator(s)

    After Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-1534) (engraver)

    After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

  • annotation: une première epreuve de cette estampe fur vendu / en 1837 in vente publique au prix de 1575. elle / est dans le cabinet de M. Debois [lower left]; Bartsch XIV. p.197 [lower right; crossed out] [front, lower margin, in pencil]

    annotation: Le Jugement de Paris. / piece gravée par Marc Antoine, en 1510, d'après Raphael, / qui y dessina lui même les contours [in a cartouche] [front, lower centre, in black ink]

  • 29.5 x 44.1 cm (actual print) (sheet of paper)

    33.2 x 46.1 cm (backing sheet) (sheet of paper)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)

  • Subject(s)
    • Language, Linguistics and Literature
      • Literature
        • Fiction
          • Tales & legends
            • Myths
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Religions of antiquity
          • Classical mythology
            • Paris (mythological character)
            • Venus (mythology)
            • Juno (myth)
            • Athena
            • Jupiter (myth)
            • Diana [myth]
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • prints
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 p.242, no.II.1

    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) p.162

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.129 C.XV.1a(add)