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Tapestries

Tapestries

    AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

    Head of a bearded man in profile to the left

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | 30.9 x 22.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853067

    A photograph of a drawing now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.3953). The drawing copies the head of one of the Apostles from Raphael's tapestry cartoon of Christ's Charge to Peter (c.1515-16) now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, on loan from the Royal Collection (see RCIN 912945).

    • Creator(s)

      After a work copying Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    • 30.9 x 22.4 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Life of Christ
              • Public Life of Christ
                • Christ's Charge to Peter (Donation of the Keys)
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte) pp.270-71, no.383

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.246 B.II.30

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