Tapestries
Tapestries
The miraculous draught of fishes
c.1530-1550Engraving | RCIN 853029
An engraving based upon a drawing now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.192r); in reverse.
Variously attributed to Raphael, Giulio Romano and Francesco Penni, the Albertina 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.
Variously attributed to Raphael, Giulio Romano and Francesco Penni, the Albertina 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.
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
