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Tapestries

Tapestries

JOHANN GOTTLIEB PRESTEL (1739-1808)

Group of figures turned to the left

dated 1778

Aquatint with etching | 33.1 x 26.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853178

A facsimile of a drawing attributed on plate to Raphael then in the Praun Collection at Nuremberg. Trimmed along all edges. Published in Johann Gottlieb Prestel, 'Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne, et des Pays-Bas, du Cabinet de Monsieur Paul de Praun à Nuremberg', 1780, plate 21. Another (untrimmed) impression dated 1778 can be found at RCIN 853179.

The composition corresponds with the right half of Raphael's tapestry cartoon of 'The Sacrifice at Lystra', designed in c.1515-16 for one the Sistine Chapel tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X (see RCIN 912949).
  • Creator(s)

    Johann Gottlieb Prestel (1739-1808) (printmaker)

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

  • 33.1 x 26.9 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Italy
          • Lazio [Italy]
            • Rome [Lazio]
              • Vatican City [Rome]
                • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                  • Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
                    • Vatican-Sistine Chapel tapestries
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.490, no.H 8.2 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)