Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
NICOLAS BOCQUET (ACTIVE 1691)
The Temptation of Adam and Eve
dated 1691Etching | 35.7 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852646
An etching after one of the four rectangular frescoes painted on the vault of the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. Dated and lettered with production details in margin below image. One from a series of plates reproducing the ceiling frescoes of the Stanza della Segnatura, executed by Bocquet between 1690 and 1695.
Creator(s)
Nicolas Bocquet (active 1691) (etcher)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
35.7 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper)
34.9 x 27.5 cm (platemark)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-Ceiling
- Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.44, no.VI.21 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
