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Gérard Audran (1640-1703)
A caryatid from the Stanza di Eliodoro c.1660-93
Etching | 43.3 x 22.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852778
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A print reproducing one of the caryatids painted on the dado below the fresco of The Liberation of St Peter in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. This caryatid is generally interpreted as representing Commerce. Lettered with artists' names at lower left. Numbered at upper left: 9. Published in Diverses Figures Hieroglyphiques Peinte par Raphael d'Urbin dans une des salles du Vatican à Rome, a series of 13 plates reproducing figures painted on the dado in the Stanza di Eliodoro.
Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Measurements
43.3 x 22.0 cm (sheet of paper)
41.1 x 18.8 cm (platemark)
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Bibliographic reference(s)
Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 pp.52-3, VI.9 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò)
Alternative title(s)
COMMERCE
