The miraculous draught of fishes

A photograph of a drawing now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.192r). Variously attributed to Raphael, Giulio Romano and Francesco Penni, the drawing is generally thought to be a first design for the composition of 'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes', one from a set of ten tapestry cartoons depicting episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul, commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X in c.1515. The tapestries were woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst and were intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.