The Martyrdom of St Cecilia

A lithographic facsimile after a drawing in the Albertina, Vienna (inv.no.212) which is believed to be a copy of Raphael's preparatory drawing (which is perhaps the heavily overworked drawing in Dresden, see RCIN 853908 for a photograph of this drawing) 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. Lettered with the name of Raphael and that of the lithographer, as well as publication details. Published in  'Lithographirte Copien von original Handzeichnungen berühmter alter Meister', Vienna 1829-34.

The Magliana chapel 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.

Between 1829 and 1834 the lithographic printers Mansfeld and Company, who were based in Vienna, published two volumes of lithographic copies after drawings then in the collection of Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen; volume one contained drawings attributed to the the Italian school, and volume two the German and Flemish school.