Portraits
Portraits
Title-page with the portrait of Bindo Altoviti
published 1797Engraving with etching | 18.8 x 13.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850110
A reversed print after the Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, a painting by Raphael (c.1516-18) now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (Samuel Kress Collection, inv. no.1943.4.33). This print is lettered with the title. According to Ruland (1876), this print is a title-page of Fittler's Cartoons (1797). Trimmed within the platemark.
Traditionally the painting was regarded as a self-portrait by Raphael. Its authorship has been disputed, but scholars are now almost unanimous in considering it an authentic work by Raphael. The identification of the sitter as Bindo Altoviti, a banker born in Rome in 1491 but of Florentine origin, is now universally accepted.
Creator(s)
James Fittler (1758-1835) (author)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
18.8 x 13.4 cm (sheet of paper)
13.1 x 7.8 cm (image)
CARTONS / DONE from the Originals / IN / His Majesty's / COLLECTION
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Genealogy and Heraldry
- Heraldry
- Coats of arms
- Coats of arms-Royal
- Coats of arms
- Heraldry
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Tapestries
- Tapestry designs
- Tapestry cartoons of Raphael (Acts of the Apostles)
- Tapestry designs
- Tapestries
- Genealogy and Heraldry
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.109-14, no.72 (Capellen 2008 : Capellen, JM, 2008. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 3, The Roman Portraits ca.1508-1520)
pp.279-84, no.77 (Henry/Joannides 2012 : Late Raphael, 2012. Edited by T. Henry and P. Joannides)
