Tapestries
Tapestries
LUDWIG SOMMEREAU (1756-86)
The miraculous draught of fishes
dated 1778Etching | 27.5 x 33.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853010
A print after a tapestry illustrating The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, 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. Dated. Numbered at upper right: no.7. Lettered with title in Latin and artists' names.
The tapestry designs were executed by Raphael and his workshop and transported to Flanders, where the tapestries were woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst. Seven of the tapestry cartoons survive, 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.
The tapestry designs were executed by Raphael and his workshop and transported to Flanders, where the tapestries were woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst. Seven of the tapestry cartoons survive, 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)
Ludwig Sommereau (1756-86) (etcher)
After Raphael (1483-1520) (designer)
Subject(s)
Saint Peter27.5 x 33.8 cm (sheet of paper)
27.0 x 33.0 cm (platemark)
MIRACVLOSA AD STAGNVM GENESARETH PISCIVM CAPTVRA
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Life of Christ
- Public Life of Christ
- Christ Calling the Apostles
- Christ-Miraculous Draught of Fishes
- Christ Calling the Apostles
- Public Life of Christ
- Life of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Biological sciences
- Zoology
- Animals
- Fish
- Animals
- Zoology
- Biological sciences
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Tapestries
- Tapestry designs
- Tapestry cartoons of Raphael (Acts of the Apostles)
- Tapestry designs
- Tapestries
Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
- Religion & Theology
Other number(s)
Ruland p.243 B.I.1