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The Miraculous Draught of Fishes c.1540
Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from three blocks | 25.5 x 36.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853019
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A chiaroscuro woodcut reproducing, in reverse, a composition corresponding with a drawing ascribed to Raphael now also in the Royal Collection (912749). First state. It has been suggested that this print, traditionally given to Ugo da Carpi, may be the work of Niccolò Vicentino. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
The Windsor drawing is a study for the final composition of 'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes', one from a set of ten tapestry cartoons commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X depicting episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul. The tapestries, woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst and intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, are now in the Vatican Museums.Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Medium and techniques
Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from three blocks
Measurements
25.5 x 36.6 cm (sheet of paper)
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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.129-30, no.I.1 (entry by Stefania Massari)
Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.482, no.H 1.1
Matile 2003 : Matile, M. Holzschnitte der Renaissance und des Barock: Bestandskatalog der Graphischen Sammlung der ETH Zurig, Basel 2003 p.124, no.49
Ugo da Carpi 2009 : Ugo da Carpi, l'opera incisa : xilografie e chiaroscuri da Tiziano, Raffaello e Parmigianino / a cura di Manuela Rossi, 2009 pp.142-3, no.26 (entry by Raimondo Sassi)
CDP C.I: Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné'
