Group of nine standing Apostles

A lithographic facsimile of a drawing now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.187). Lettered with artists' names. Published in N. Förster, Lithographirte Copien von Original Handzeichnungen berühmter alter Meister der Italienischen schule aus der Sammlung seiner Kaiserlichen Hoheit des durchlauchtigsten Erzherzogs Carl von Oesterreich, 2 vols., Vienna (Mansfeld et Comp.), 1829-34, XX. A photograph of the original drawing can be found at RCIN 853123.

The composition occurs in a frieze-like scene in the border below 'The Sacrifice at Lystra', one of the ten Sistine Chapel tapestries designed by Raphael and his studio under commission of Pope Leo X. The scenes in the tapestry borders illustrate episodes from the life of Pope Leo X and the Acts of the Apostles. For a photograph of the tapestry see 853170.

Between 1829 and 1834 the lithographic printers Mansfeld and Company, who were based in Vienna, published two volumes of lithographic copies after drawings then in the collection of Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen; volume one contained drawings attributed to the Italian school, and volume two the German and Flemish school.