Tapestries
JOHANN GOTTLIEB PRESTEL (1739-1808)
The Death of Ananias
dated 1777Aquatint with etching | 48.9 x 67.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853130
A facsimile of a drawing attributed on plate to Raphael, when in the Praun collection in Nuremberg. Dated and lettered with engraver's name. Published in Johann Gottlieb Prestel, 'Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne, et des Pays-Bas, du Cabinet de Monsieur Paul de Praun à Nuremberg', 1780, plate 24. Not in Ruland (1876). Another impression of this facsimile can be found at RCIN 853129.
The composition corresponds with Raphael's tapestry cartoon of 'The Death of Ananias', designed in c.1515-16 for one the Sistine Chapel tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X (see RCIN 912947).
The composition corresponds with Raphael's tapestry cartoon of 'The Death of Ananias', designed in c.1515-16 for one the Sistine Chapel tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X (see RCIN 912947).
Creator(s)
Johann Gottlieb Prestel (1739-1808) (printmaker)
After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
48.9 x 67.8 cm (sheet of paper)
43.6 x 57.1 cm (platemark)
La Mort d'Ananias. Actor V.5.
- 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)
pp.486-7, no.H 4.3 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
