Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
JACOB BONNEAU (D. 1786)
A female head
c.1735-1775Engraving with etching | 23.2 x 17.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853511
A print stated by Ruland (1876) to reproduce the 'head of the nearest standing female figure' in the fresco 'The infant Moses found by the river' painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the eighth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. Lettered with the engraver's signature and attribution of the figure to Raphael. Annotated in person in the bottom right corner: 3d.
Creator(s)
Jacob Bonneau (d. 1786) (engraver)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
3 <d?>
A heart, followed by the letters 'SA [indistinguishable]; FIN[?]'
23.2 x 17.2 cm (sheet of paper)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Bible & Holy Scripture
- Old Testament
- Bible & Holy Scripture
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Religion & Theology
