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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    AFTER A WORK ATTRIBUTED TO GIOVANNI FRANCESCO PENNI (1496-C. 1536)

    Joseph before the Pharaoh

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | 14.3 x 42.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852790

    A photograph of a drawing currently attributed to G.F. Penni now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.282). This composition is generally thought to have been frescoed in monochrome on the window-embrasures of the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican.

    • Creator(s)

      After a work attributed to Giovanni Francesco Penni (1496-c. 1536) (artist)

    • 14.3 x 42.1 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for 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]
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      p.318, under no.814 (P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London)

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