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Tapestries

Tapestries

    THEODOR LANGER (ACTIVE 1875)

    The Conversion of Saul

    c.1860-90

    Engraving | 47.8 x 49.8 cm (platemark) | RCIN 853144

    A print after the tapestry of The Conversion of Saul now in the Vatican Museums (inv. no.43872), one 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. Beneath the central scene is a border depicting events following St Stephen's martyrdom.

    Lettered with production details, dedication and dedicatee's coat of arms. On watermarked paper, with pencil annotations. Described as from Pietro de Brognoli's series of prints after Raphael's Stanze frescoes and Sistine Chapel tapestries dated 1874 (Höper 2001). Not in Ruland (1876).

    The tapestry designs were executed by Raphael and his workshop and transported to Flanders, where the tapestries were woven in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst. Three of the original cartoons are lost, including that of The Conversion of Saul. The remaining seven are 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)

      Theodor Langer (active 1875) (engraver)

      After Raphael (1483-1520) (designer)

      Giuseppe Sereni (19C) (designer)

      Angelo Biggi (active 19th century) (printer)

      Mauricio Álvarez de Bohórquez (19C) (dedicatee)

      Pietro Brognoli (active c. 1874) (dedicator)

      Subject(s)

      Saint Paul

    • annotation: Pf. 32. A / Cartoons VI. 4a. [front, lower left, in pencil]

      annotation: A. VI 4a [front, lower right, in pencil]

      watermark: P. M [cropped]

    • 47.8 x 49.8 cm (platemark)

    • LA CONVERSIONE DI S. PAOLO

    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)

    • Subject(s)
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Italy
            • Lazio [Italy]
              • Rome [Lazio]
                • Vatican City [Rome]
                  • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                    • Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
                      • Vatican-Sistine Chapel tapestries
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 p.132, no.VI.2 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini)

      Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.489, no.H 6.3

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.249 B.VI.4a(add)

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