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    ANNE CLAUDE PHILIPPE, COMTE DE CAYLUS (1692-1765)

    Joseph before the Pharaoh

    c.1712-1755

    Etching | 18.3 x 30.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852789

    A facsimile of a drawing connected with the left half of a composition generally thought to have been painted in monochrome on a window-embrasure in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. The full composition was engraved by Pietro Santi Bartoli; see RCIN 852787.

    • Creator(s)

      Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de Caylus (1692-1765) (printmaker)

      After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    • 18.3 x 30.2 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
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Italy
            • Lazio [Italy]
              • Rome [Lazio]
                • Vatican City [Rome]
                  • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                    • Stanza d'Eliodoro [Vatican Palace]
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