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GIUSEPPE VITTA (19C)

Portrait of a Woman ['La Gravida']

c.1800-1876

Engraving | 27.0 x 20.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852022

A print after the so-called 'La Gravida', a painting by Raphael (c.1505-07) now in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence (inv.1912, no.229). Lettered with production details and attribution of the portrait to an anonymous painter. The authorship of the portrait has long remained unclear, but it is now generally regarded as a work by Raphael. The identity of the sitter has so far not been identified. Photographs of the painting at RCINs 852020, 852021.
  • Creator(s)

    Giuseppe Vitta (19C) (engraver)

    After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    Pescatori (19C) (designer)

  • 27.0 x 20.1 cm (sheet of paper)
    17.4 x 13.8 cm (image)
    26.0 x 18.6 cm (platemark)

  • IGNOTA

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.302, no.47/III.1) (Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 )