Tapestries
Tapestries
The miraculous draught of fishes
c.1853-76Albumen print? | RCIN 853027
A photograph of a drawing now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.192r). Variously attributed to Raphael, Giulio Romano and Francesco Penni, the drawing is generally thought to be a first design for the composition of 'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes', one from a set of ten tapestry cartoons depicting episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul, commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X in c.1515. The tapestries were woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst and were intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)