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      CIRCLE OF NICOLAS BEATRIZET (ACTIVE 1540-72)

      St Veronica holding the Holy Shroud

      dated 1557

      Engraving | 39.9 x 28.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851639

      An engraving after a design formerly reputed to be by Raphael. Lettered with date and Bible quote ('Signatum est super nos lumen vultus [...] in corde meo. Psal IIII"). A similar engraving by Nicolas Beatrizet is catalogued by Bartsch as being after Girolamo Muziano (Bartsch XV, p.257, no.36).

      • Creator(s)

        Circle of Nicolas Beatrizet (active 1540-72) (engraver)

        After? Girolamo Muziano (1532-92) (artist)

        Subject(s)

        Saint Veronica

      • 39.9 x 28.4 cm (sheet of paper)

        37.1 x 25.7 cm (platemark)

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

      • Place of Production
        Rome [Lazio]
      • Subject(s)
        • Religion & Theology
          • Religions and faiths
            • Christianity
              • Devotional Images of Christ
                • Sudarium (Christ's face on St Veronica's cloth)
              • Angels, demons, devils, saints
                • Saints (Christianity)
              • Life of Christ
                • Passion of Christ
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • prints
      • Other number(s)

        Ruland p.123 D.XXII.2

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