Tapestries
Tapestries
CORNELIS MASSYS (C. 1510-1562)
The miraculous draught of fishes
c.1520-1580Engraving | 22.7 x 29.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853031
A print based upon Raphael's tapestry cartoon of 'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes'; in reverse and with slight alterations. Lettered with inscription attributing the composition to Raphael, and signed with engraver's monogram on a stone at lower right (see Nagler II, no.498.1). Not in Ruland (1876).
Raphael's cartoon of 'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes' is one from a set of ten depicting episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul, commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X for tapestries to be hung in the Sistine Chapel. Seven of the cartoons survive in the Victoria and Albert Museum, on loan from the Royal Collection; the ten original tapestries were woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst and are currently housed in the Vatican Museums.
Raphael's cartoon of 'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes' is one from a set of ten depicting episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul, commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X for tapestries to be hung in the Sistine Chapel. Seven of the cartoons survive in the Victoria and Albert Museum, on loan from the Royal Collection; the ten original tapestries were woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst and are currently housed in the Vatican Museums.
Creator(s)
Cornelis Massys (c. 1510-1562) (engraver)
22.7 x 29.3 cm (sheet of paper)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
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
- Zoology
- Animals
- Fish
- Animals
- Zoology
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Tapestries
- Tapestry designs
- Tapestry cartoons of Raphael (Acts of the Apostles)
- Tapestry designs
- Tapestries
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.130, under no.I.1 (entry by Stefania Massari) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
