Tapestries
Tapestries
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
c.1540Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from three blocks | 25.5 x 36.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853019
The Windsor drawing is a study for the final composition of 'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes', one from a set of ten tapestry cartoons commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X depicting episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul. The tapestries, woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst and intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, are now in the Vatican Museums.
Creator(s)
Attributed to Giuseppe Niccolò Vicentino (active c. 1530-50) (wood cutter)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Previously attributed to Ugo da Carpi (c. 1480-1532) (wood cutter)
25.5 x 36.6 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
- Christ Calling the Apostles
- Public Life of Christ
- Life of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Zoology
- Animals
- Fish
- Animals
- Zoology
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Tapestries
- Tapestry designs
- Tapestry cartoons of Raphael (Acts of the Apostles)
- Tapestry designs
- Tapestries
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.129-30, no.I.1 (entry by Stefania Massari) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
p.482, no.H 1.1 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
p.124, no.49 (Matile 2003 : Matile, M. Holzschnitte der Renaissance und des Barock: Bestandskatalog der Graphischen Sammlung der ETH Zurig, Basel 2003)
pp.142-3, no.26 (entry by Raimondo Sassi) (Ugo da Carpi 2009 : Ugo da Carpi, l'opera incisa : xilografie e chiaroscuri da Tiziano, Raffaello e Parmigianino / a cura di Manuela Rossi, 2009)
(CDP C.I: Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné')
