Christ's charge to Peter

A print after the tapestry illustrating 'Christ's Charge to Peter', one from a set of ten tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. Lettered with artists' and printer's names below image. With coat of arms at lower centre, and head of St Peter at lower right (detail from the tapestry). State without dedication. On watermarked paper, annotated in pencil on the back. Not in Ruland (1876). Described as from Pietro de Brognoli's series of prints after Raphael's Stanze frescoes and Sistine Chapel tapestries dated 1874 (Höper 2001).

The central scene illustrates Christ's charge to St Peter (Matthew 16:18-19; John 21:15-17). Beneath is a fictive relief depicting scenes from the life of Leo X.

The tapestry designs, illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul, were commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X and transported to Flanders, where the tapestries were woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst. Seven of the tapestry cartoons survive, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum on loan from the Royal Collection. The ten original tapestries, intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, are housed in the Vatican Museums.