Tapestries
Tapestries
JOHANN GOTTLIEB PRESTEL (1739-1808)
Group of figures turned to the left
dated 1778Aquatint with etching | 71.4 x 49.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853179
A facsimile of a drawing then in the Praun Collection at Nuremberg. Dated and lettered with details. With pencil annotations on both sides. Not in Ruland (1876). 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 impression can be found at RCIN 853178.
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).
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)
Pf. 32. A. VIII 10a
Pf. 32. A VIII. 10 b. (dupl)
71.4 x 49.0 cm (sheet of paper)
45.8 x 33.4 cm (platemark)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.490, no.H 8.2 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
