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Tapestries

      ? ANTONIO FANTUZZI (C. 1510-AFTER 1550)

      The miraculous draught of fishes

      c.1530-1550

      Etching | 26.2 x 32.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853030

      A etching sometimes attributed to Antonio Fantuzzi, based upon a drawing now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.192r); in reverse and with variations in the landscape.

      Variously attributed to Raphael, Giulio Romano and Francesco Penni, the Albertina 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.

      • Creator(s)

        ? Antonio Fantuzzi (c. 1510-after 1550) (etcher)

        Subject(s)

        Saint Peter

      • 26.2 x 32.9 cm (sheet of paper)

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

      • Subject(s)
        • Religion & Theology
          • Religions and faiths
            • Christianity
              • Life of Christ
                • Public Life of Christ
                  • Christ Calling the Apostles
                    • Christ-Miraculous Draught of Fishes
        • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
          • Biological sciences
            • Zoology
              • Animals
                • Fish
        • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
          • Tapestries
            • Tapestry designs
              • Tapestry cartoons of Raphael (Acts of the Apostles)
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • prints
      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        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) p.263

        Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.483, no.H 1.2

        Other number(s)

        Ruland p.244 B.I.20

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