Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
BERNARD PICART (1673-1733)
The Incredulity of St Thomas
published 1734Etching | 22.3 x 20.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852665
A facsimile of a drawing when in the collection of Antoine Rutgers at Amsterdam; reproduced in reverse. The drawing is currently attributed to Raphael and housed in the Städel Museum, Graphische Sammlung, Frankfurt am Main (inv. no.4302). Lettered with artists' names and location of the work. Trimmed along plate mark. Annotated in pencil in the upper right corner. Published in B. Picart, 'Impostures Innocentes', Amsterdam 1734, plate 1. Another impression of this plate can be found at RCIN 852667. A copy of Picart's volume can be found at RCIN 809004.
For a photograph of the Städel drawing and further discussion, see RCIN 852664.
Creator(s)
Bernard Picart (1673-1733) (etcher)
After a work attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Letters [indecipherable] / 87.
22.3 x 20.2 cm (sheet of paper)
21.8 x 20.0 cm (platemark)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.211, no.313 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
p.332, no.E 2.8 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
p.225, under no.42 (Jacoby/Sonnabend 2012: edited by J. Jacoby and M. Sonnabend, Frankfurt/Main 2012)
