The Martyrdom of St Cecilia

A copy by Etienne Delaune, in reverse, after an engraving by Marcantonio which may have been made after a (heavily retouched) preparatory drawing in Dresden (inv.no. C168) by Raphael, for the lunette fresco The Martyrdom of St Cecilia, fragments of which now survive in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne. The fresco was part of the decoration in the chapel of the Villa Magliana, the papal villa in the Roman campagna, executed by Raphael's workshop c.1513-20. Signed with the printmaker's monogram at bottom right, and numbered top centre: 7. Trimmed on all sides. Annotated on verso. Number 7 of a suite of 8 engravings of religious subjects and scenes from antiquity.

The frescoes were commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X. They were detached from the chapel in the nineteenth century and fragments of two of them are now in the Louvre, Paris, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne.