ERNST MORACE (1766-1820)

Venus and Vulcan

c.1800-10

Engraving | 51.2 x 37.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851777

A print after a painting attributed to the School of Giulio Romano currently housed in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.424). Lettered with engraver's name at lower right below image. Included in 'Le Musée Français, recueil complet des tableaux, statues et bas-reliefs...', Paris 1803-09.

The composition, also known through an engraving by Agostino Veneziano (RCIN 951776), has been traditionally associated with a design which, according to Passavant, was commissioned from Raphael by Giovanni Battiferri, who wished to have it frescoed by Vincenzo da Gimignano on the façade of his house in the Vatican Borgo, Rome.

A handful of drawings of this subject survive, including two (inv. nos.3657, 3478) now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. no.D.844-1886), and another in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 990303). Ruland (1876) lists a further drawing of this subject as being then in the collection of Mr Tiffin, London; a photograph at RCIN 851779.

Creator(s)

Ernst Morace (1766-1820) (engraver)

After Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546) (artist)

After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
51.2 x 37.3 cm (sheet of paper)

37.3 x 24.7 cm (image)

46.0 x 34.2 cm (platemark)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
  
  Literature
  
  Fiction
  
  Tales & legends
  
  Myths
- Religion & Theology
  
  Religions and faiths
  
  Religions of antiquity
  
  Classical mythology
  
  Venus (mythology)
  
  Cupid
- Science, Medicine and Technology
  
  Engineering & Technology
  
  Military engineering
  
  Arms (weapons)
  
  Arrows
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.126, under P4 (Bacou 1984 : Bacou, R. Autour de Raphaël. Dessins et peintures du Musée du Louvre, 1984)

p.246, no.V.6 (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)

pp.489-90 (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))

pp.18-9, under no.13 (Massari 1993 : Massari, S, 1993. Giulio Romano pinxit et delineavit : Opere grafiche autografe di collaborazione e bottega, Rome)

p.191, no.A 55.2 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)

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Venus and Vulcan

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