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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    NICOLAS CHAPERON (1612-C. 1656)

    Angels appear to Abraham

    published 1649

    Etching | 19.8 x 26.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853419

    A print after the fresco Angels appear to Abraham painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the fourth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. Lettered with Bible quote in Latin (Genesis 18) and attribution of the composition to Raphael. Signed with the engraver's monogram at lower right (see Nagler, IV, no.2360). Numbered on plate at lower right: 15. On watermarked paper. Trimmed within platemark. Not included in Ruland (1876). This print is from a series which was first issued in Sacrae Historiae Acta a Raphael Urbin in Vaticanis xystis ad picturae miraculum expressa, Rome, 1649.

    • Creator(s)

      Nicolas Chaperon (1612-c. 1656) (etcher)

      After a work by the workshop of Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

      Subject(s)

      Abraham(OT)

    • watermark: A four-petalled flower with stem, the letters C [or G?] ATINAVD in a cartouche [centre]

    • 19.8 x 26.5 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Apparuerunt ei tres viri, et cucurrit Abraham / de ostio tabernaculi sui, et adorauit in terra. Gen. XVIII.

    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Bible & Holy Scripture
              • Old Testament
            • Angels, demons, devils, saints
              • Angels
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 p.87, no.VI.16 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodino)

      Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.446, G16.17

      Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985 fig.38

      Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 pl.113, p.153

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.216 B.XV.1a(add)

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