The martyrdom of St John the Evangelist

A print reproducing a fresco catalogued by Ruland (1876) as "in San Giovanni in Rome, representing the Martyrdom of St John, carefully imitated from Raphael's composition". The Raphael work that Ruland references is the lunette fresco of the The Martyrdom of St Cecilia, fragments of which now survive in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne, which formed 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 attribution of the composition to Raphael, the printmaker's name and publication line: 'Steph Gantrel excudit Cum privilegio Regis'. Etched border touched up with ink. Trimmed on all sides.

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.