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    AFTER GIOVANNI FRANCESCO PENNI (1496-C. 1536)

    Noah's Sacrifice

    c.1860-76

    Carbon print | 20.4 x 28.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853406

    A photograph of a drawing now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv.169). Previously attributed to Raphael and Giovanni Francesco Penni, it is now generally thought to be a copy after a lost drawing by Penni. His drawing served as a preparatory design for the fresco of Noah's Sacrifice painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the third bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican.

    • Creator(s)

      After Giovanni Francesco Penni (1496-c. 1536) (artist)

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

    • 20.4 x 28.8 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)

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

      Ruland p.215 B.XII.5

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