Tapestries
AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
The Adoration of the Shepherds
after 1853Albumen print | 49.7 x 40.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853268
A photograph of a painting once in the Dresden Gallery. Annotated in pencil on the back. Not in Ruland (1876). According to Passavant (1860), the painting may be the work of a Netherlandish artist who inserted three dogs in the foreground, two of which he described as copied from Durer.
The composition is derived from the tapestry of ‘The Adoration of the Magi’, one from a twelve-piece set depicting scenes from the Life of Christ, traditionally known as the ‘Scuola Nuova’ (eleven of which survive today in the Vatican Museums). The setting has been greatly modified. See RCIN 853263.
The composition is derived from the tapestry of ‘The Adoration of the Magi’, one from a twelve-piece set depicting scenes from the Life of Christ, traditionally known as the ‘Scuola Nuova’ (eleven of which survive today in the Vatican Museums). The setting has been greatly modified. See RCIN 853263.
Creator(s)
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Pf. 33. B. III. (8) / Tapestries Scuola Nuova. III. 8. / To be inserted: Raph. Cat pag. 256, III. / 8. Phot. of an oil painting of this composition, with / a different background tc [?]; in the Dresden / Gallery.
71 [upside down]
49.7 x 40.4 cm (sheet of paper)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Life of Christ
- Infancy of Christ
- Adoration of the Shepherds
- Infancy of Christ
- Life of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Religion & Theology
