Tapestries
Tapestries
GIOVANNI BATTISTA FRANCO (C. 1510-1561)
St Peter and St John healing a lame man at the gate of the Temple
c.1530-1551Engraving | 25.7 x 41.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853107
A print reproducing a composition based on Raphael's cartoon of 'The Healing of the Lame Man', designed for one of the Sistine Chapel tapestries in c.1515-16 (see RCIN 912946).
It has been suggested that a (now lost) preparatory study by Raphael for the final composition may have served as model for Battista Franco’s engraving. A drawing now in the Louvre, Paris (inv. no.3988) has sometimes been described as a copy after such lost study by Raphael. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
It has been suggested that a (now lost) preparatory study by Raphael for the final composition may have served as model for Battista Franco’s engraving. A drawing now in the Louvre, Paris (inv. no.3988) has sometimes been described as a copy after such lost study by Raphael. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
Creator(s)
Giovanni Battista Franco (c. 1510-1561) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
25.7 x 41.7 cm (sheet of paper)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.131, under no.IV.1 (entry by Stefania Massari) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
p.264 (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))
