The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
Johann Peter von Langer (1756-1824)
Jacob asks for Rachel as wife c.1776-1814
Etching | 21.5 x 25.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853479
A reproduction of a drawing copying (with variations) the fresco Jacob asks for Rachel as wife painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the sixth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. Numbered inside the plate: ii. Lettered with the printmaker's name and attribution of the drawing to Poussin. Not in Ruland (1876); according to the annotation in the Royal Collection copy of the catalogue, the drawing was then in the Dusseldorf Collection.
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Creator(s)
Johann Peter von Langer (1756-1824) (engraver)
After a work attributed to Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) (artist)
Subject(s)
Jacob(OT) -
21.5 x 25.3 cm (sheet of paper)
17.8 x 25.0 cm (platemark)
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Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Bible & Holy Scripture
- Old Testament
- Bible & Holy Scripture
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.219 B.XXIII.6(add)
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