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Saints

Saints

NEPOMUK STRIXNER (1782-1855)

A monk holding the leg of a dead man, with onlookers standing behind him

c.1802-1845

Lithograph | 26.0 x 24.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851649

A facsimile of a drawing attributed on plate to Raphael, listed by Ruland (1876) as being then in the Royal Collection at Munich.
  • Creator(s)

    Nepomuk Strixner (1782-1855) (printmaker)

    After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

  • 26.0 x 24.5 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Subject(s)
    • Social sciences
      • Ethnology
        • Funerals
          • Burials
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Religious orders
          • Monks