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Tapestries

Tapestries

LUDWIG SOMMEREAU (1756-86)

St Peter and St John healing a lame man at the gate of the Temple

dated 1778

Etching | 27.2 x 40.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853094

A print after the tapestry illustrating 'The Healing of the Lame Man', from a set of ten tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. Dated. Numbered at upper right: no.19. Lettered with title in Latin and artists' names. The tapestry designs were executed by Raphael and his workshop and transported to Flanders, where the tapestries were woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst. Seven of the tapestry cartoons survive, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum on loan from the Royal Collection. The ten original tapestries, intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, are housed in the Vatican Museums.
  • Creator(s)

    Ludwig Sommereau (1756-86) (etcher)

    After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)

  • [numbers; illegible]

  • 27.2 x 40.0 cm (sheet of paper)

  • PETRVS CVM IOANNE CLAVDVM A MATRIS VTERO SANAT

  • 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)

    pp.83-7, no.3 (Raphael. Cartoons and Tapestries 2010 : Raphael. Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. Edited by M. Evans and C. Browne with A. Nesselrath, V&A Publishing 2010)