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The miraculous draught of fishes published 1609
Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks | 22.6 x 34.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853020
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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). This is a later state published by Andrea Andreani in 1609, bearing his publishing address (Mantua) at lower left and with retouching in the sky. An early state impression can be found at RCIN 853019.
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 illustrating 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. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks
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22.6 x 34.7 cm (sheet of paper)
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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, under no.I.1 (entry by Stefania Massari)
Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.482, no.H 1.1A
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)
