Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
Aeneas Rescuing Anchises
c.1691-1724Etching | RCIN 852823
A print reproducing (in reverse) the group of the man saving his father painted in the left foreground of Raphael's fresco of 'The Fire in the Borgo' in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican. The figures are generally identified as Aeneas rescuing his father Anchises from Troy. Lettered with artists' names along the lower margin. From a series of plates made by Procaccini reproducing details from Raphael's Vatican Stanze.
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)