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Vatican Frescoes

    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.

    • Creator(s)

      Johann Peter von Langer (1756-1824) (engraver)

      After a work attributed to Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) (artist)

      Subject(s)

      Jacob(OT)
      Rachel (OT)

    • 21.5 x 25.3 cm (sheet of paper)

      17.8 x 25.0 cm (platemark)

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

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Bible & Holy Scripture
              • Old Testament
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • Other number(s)

      Ruland p.219 B.XXIII.6(add)

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