Tapestries
THEODOR LANGER (ACTIVE 1875)
The Conversion of Saul
c.1860-1890Engraving | 47.8 x 49.6 cm (platemark) | RCIN 853145
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 artists' and printer's names below image. With coat of arms at lower centre, and heads of two angels at lower right (detail from the tapestry). On watermarked paper, annotated in pencil on the back. State without dedication. 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.
Lettered with artists' and printer's names below image. With coat of arms at lower centre, and heads of two angels at lower right (detail from the tapestry). On watermarked paper, annotated in pencil on the back. State without dedication. 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 (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
Giuseppe Sereni (19C) (designer)
Angelo Biggi (active 19th century) (printer)
P. M [cropped]
Pf. 32. A. VI 4b. (dupl)
47.8 x 49.6 cm (platemark)
- 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
- Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.132, no.VI.2 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
p.489, no.H 6.3 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
