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    FERDINAND JEAN DE LA FERTÉ JOUBERT (1810-84)

    Saint Cecilia

    published 1835

    Etching | 30.9 x 21.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851484

    An outline-etching after a painting attributed on plate to Raphael then in the Coesvelt Collection. The painting reproduced in this print is a copy of Raphael's 'Saint Cecilia', a picture now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna (inv. no.577). Lettered with production details. Included in 'Collection of Pictures by W. G. Coesvelt, Esq of London', London 1836, plate 67.

    • Creator(s)

      Ferdinand Jean de la Ferté Joubert (1810-84) (etcher)

      After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

      Ferdinand Jean de la Ferté Joubert (1810-84) (designer)

      Carpenter, James, & Son : Old Bond Street (publisher)

    • 30.9 x 21.9 cm (sheet of paper)

      17.0 x 11.2 cm (image)

      26.2 x 16.3 cm (platemark)

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

    • Subject(s)
      • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
        • Music
          • Musical instruments
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Angels, demons, devils, saints
              • Musical angels
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      pp.124-32, no.55 (Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 )

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