A Dacian prisoner

An etching reproducing in reverse a drawing of a Dacian prisoner in profile. This print is lettered with the name of Raphael, signed and dated by the printmaker.

The etching was made by Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys after the drawing, which was then in his possession. Vialart de Saint-Morys was a collector of Old Master drawings and amateur printmaker who published two groups of prints after drawings in his own collection, the first group dated 1780-89 and the second 1792-94.