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A portrait of Bindo Altoviti
c.1793-1830Engraving | 33.8 x 23.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850099
An engraving after the Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, a painting by Raphael (c.1516-18) now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (Samuel Kress Collection, inv. no.1943.4.33). This print is lettered with production details, dedication and dedicatee's coat of arms. Signed by the printmaker. Trimmed within the platemark. Annotated on the verso.
When this print was published, the painting was regarded as a self-portrait by Raphael. Its authorship has been disputed, but scholars are now almost unanimous in considering it an authentic work by Raphael. The identification of the sitter as Bindo Altoviti, a banker born in Rome in 1491 but of Florentine origin, is now universally accepted.
The lettering below the image records that the portrait was housed in the Altoviti Palace in Florence at the time this print was published. Ruland (1876) catalogued the painting as being then in the Gallery (Alte Pinakothek) in Munich.
Another impression of this print is included in the "Portraits of Raphael" section of the Raphael Collection; see RCIN 852054 for it.
Creator(s)
Raphael Morghen (1758-1833) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Giovanni Battista Baldelli (1766-1831) (dedicatee)
Nicolò Palmerini (1779-1839) (dedicator)
Nicolò Palmerini (1779-1839) (publisher)
left top
33.8 x 23.1 cm (sheet of paper)
25.1 x 9.3 cm (image)
All'Ornatissimo Signore Gio. Batista Baldelli / di Conti di Peciano ...
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.232, no.B 8.2 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
pp.109-14, no.72 (Capellen 2008 : Capellen, JM, 2008. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 3, The Roman Portraits ca.1508-1520)
pp.279-84, no.77 (Henry/Joannides 2012 : Late Raphael, 2012. Edited by T. Henry and P. Joannides)
