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JACOPO BERNARDI (B. 1808)

Portrait of a Young Woman ('Dorothea')

c.1828-1850

Engraving | 35.9 x 26.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852120

A print after a painting catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the collection of Count Persico at Verona. The painting is a copy of the so-called 'Dorothea', a portrait by Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1512-13) now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (inv. no.295B). Lettered with attribution to Raphael, production details and dedication. The legend below image identifies the sitter as Raphael's mistress, known as La Fornarina.

  • Creator(s)

    Jacopo Bernardi (b. 1808) (engraver)

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

    Jacopo Bernardi (b. 1808) (designer)

    Raphael Morghen (1758-1833) (director)

    After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    Benedetto Valmarana (active 19C) (dedicatee)

    Jacopo Bernardi (b. 1808) (dedicator)

  • 35.9 x 26.2 cm (sheet of paper)

    24.5 x 19.6 cm (image)

  • RAPHAELIS AMICITIA CELEBERRIMA LA FORNARINA

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    pp.144-7, no.22 (Sebastiano del Piombo 1485-1547 : edited by Claudio Strinati, Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann, 2008)

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