New Testament subjects
Christ feeding the Five Thousand
c.1550-1600Etching with engraving | 51.2 x 73.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850513
A print depicting Christ feeding the Five Thousands. Signed by the printmaker with the attribution of the design to Raphael. Trimmed within the platemark.
This print 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)
Giovanni Battista de Cavalieri (c. 1525-1601) (engraver)
After Bartolommeo Ramenghi da Bagnacavallo (1484-1542) (artist)
After a work associated with Biagio Pupini (active 1511-after 1575) (artist)
51.2 x 73.9 cm (sheet of paper)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Life of Christ
- Public Life of Christ
- Christ-Miracles
- Christ Feeding the Five Thousand
- Christ-Miracles
- Public Life of Christ
- Life of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
- Religion & Theology
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.183, no. A XIV (entry written by Stefania Massari)
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. 642, no. 1050
Other number(s)
Ruland p.43 D.XXIII.1
