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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

PETER FENDI (1796-1842)

Two women with a child whose hands are joined in prayer

c.1816-1842

Lithograph | 35.6 x 25.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852830

A lithograph after a drawing attributed to Raphael (c.1514) now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.4878). Lettered with production details below image. Published in 'Lithographirte Copien von Original Handzeichnungen berühmter alter Meister [...]', Vienna, I.

The drawing is a preparatory study for the group painted in the centre foreground of Raphael's fresco of 'The Fire in the Borgo', executed in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican in c.1514. The authorship of the drawing (sometimes attributed to Penni or Giulio Romano) is subject of much debate; for a photograph of a drawing, see RCIN 852828.
  • Creator(s)

    Peter Fendi (1796-1842) (designer)

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

    Mansfeld & Co. : Vienna (lithographer)

  • 35.6 x 25.2 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.226, no.369 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

    p.344 (Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte))