The Death of Ananias

A print after the tapestry of 'The Death of Ananias', one of a set of ten tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned by Pope Leo X. Beneath the central scene is a border depicting scenes from the life of Pope Leo X, whose emblems appear in the central section.

Lettered with production details, dedication and dedicatee's coat of arms. 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. Seven of the tapestry cartoons survive (including that of 'The Healing of the Lame Man'), now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London on loan from the Royal Collection. The ten original tapestries, intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, are housed in the Vatican Museums.