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New Testament subjects

New Testament subjects

CHARLES NORMAND (1765-1840)

Christ feeding the Five Thousand

published 1803

Etching | 31.4 x 42.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850514

An outline etching depicting Christ feeding the Five Thousands. This print is lettered with "300" at the upper right corner, the title in French, German and English at the bottom of the print. Signed by the printmaker with the attribution of the painting to Raphael. This print was published as plate 300 in C.P. Landon, 'Vie et Œuvre complète de Raphaël Sanzio', 1803. Trimmed within the platemark.

See RCIN 850513 for an engraving of the same subject which was probably the source for this etching. The engraving appears to be after a drawing attributed to Bartolomeo Ramenghi so-called Bagnacavallo now in the Louvre, Paris (inv. no. 4283; see RCIN 850515 for a photograph of this drawing). The drawing was probably used as a modello for the fresco (which was destroyed in the late 19th century) executed by Bagnacavallo and Biagio Pupini in the refectory of S. Salvatore, Bologna. This engraving is printed in the same direction and scale of the drawing, but it shows some differences with it especially in the background. Other two drawings (one by Biagio Pupini and one by Bagnacavallo) now in the Royal Library, Windsor (respectively RCINs 990044 and 990736) are very close to two details on the right and left portion of this engraving.

  • Creator(s)

    Charles Normand (1765-1840) (etcher)

    After? Giovanni Battista de Cavalieri (c. 1525-1601) (engraver)

    After Bartolommeo Ramenghi da Bagnacavallo (1484-1542) (artist)

    Charles Paul Landon (1760-1826) (publisher)

    After a work associated with Biagio Pupini (active 1511-after 1575) (artist)

  • 31.4 x 42.4 cm (sheet of paper)
    29.4 x 41.9 cm (image)

  • Le miracle dea cinq paina / Das wunder der funf brode / The miracle of the five loaves.

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-1876)

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Life of Christ
            • Public Life of Christ
              • Christ-Miracles
                • Christ Feeding the Five Thousand
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.183, no. A XIV (entry written by Stefania Massari) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
    p. 642, no. 1050 (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))