Saints
Saints
SIMON VALLÉE (1680-C. 1730)
St John the Baptist in the Desert
c.1729Engraving with etching | 43.8 x 33.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851518
A print after a painting then in the Cabinet du Roy, and now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.606); reproduced in reverse. The authorship of the painting, dated around 1517 and attributed on plate to Raphael, is still a matter of dispute. Published in ‘Recueil Crozat’, Paris 1729, plate 14. A photograph of the painting at RCIN 851517.
Creator(s)
Simon Vallée (1680-c. 1730) (engraver)
After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
43.8 x 33.6 cm (sheet of paper)
35.7 x 29.0 cm (image)
41.9 x 30.5 cm (platemark)
S.t Jean Baptiste
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.265-7, no.A12 (Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 )
