Portrait of a Young Woman

c.1778-1823

Engraving with etching | 34.3 x 24.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852048

A print after a painting by Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1512) now in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence (inv. 1890, n. 1443). Lettered with title, production details and traditional attribution to Raphael. With dedication, dedicatee's coat of arms and stamped with engraver's blind stamp at lower right (Lugt 3428). According to Passavant, this print is dated 1809. For an impression without dedication, see RCIN 852047.

The painting has been formerly attributed to Giorgione and Raphael but scholars are now unanimous in seeing it as a work by Sebastiano del Piombo. The identity of the sitter, who has been previously identified as Margherita Luciani (known as La Fornarina), is still a matter of dispute. Photographs of the painting at RCINs 852045, 852046.

Creator(s)

Raphael Morghen (1758-1833) (engraver)

After Sebastiano Del Piombo (1485-1547) (artist)

Pietro Ermini (active 1799-1820) (designer)

Giovanni Alessandro [Preside Accademia di Firenze] (19C) (dedicatee)

Raphael Morghen (1758-1833) (dedicator)

Bardi, Luigi : Florence (publisher)

After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
34.3 x 24.8 cm (sheet of paper)

25.3 x 19.5 cm (image)

33.0 x 23.1 cm (platemark)
RAPHAELIS AMICITIA CELEBERRIMA. LA FORNARINA
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
Bibliographic reference(s)

p.231, A XVII.1 (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)

p.245, no.B.31.1 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)

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