Christ feeding the Five Thousand

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 nineteenth 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.