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Tapestries

Tapestries

      ANNE CLAUDE PHILIPPE, COMTE DE CAYLUS (1692-1765)

      St Paul preaching at Athens

      c.1712-1755

      Etching | 25.0 x 31.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853196

      A print reproducing (in reverse) a drawing now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.3884r). Lettered with artists' names.

      • Creator(s)

        Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de Caylus (1692-1765) (etcher)

        After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

      • 25.0 x 31.9 cm (sheet of paper)

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

      • Subject(s)
        • Places
          • Europe
            • Greece
              • Attiki [Greece]
                • Athens [Greece]
                  • Areopagus [Athens]
            • Italy
              • Lazio [Italy]
                • Rome [Lazio]
                  • Vatican City [Rome]
                    • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                      • Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
                        • Vatican-Sistine Chapel tapestries
      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        p.280, under no.413 (Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte))

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