Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
Angels appear to Abraham
published 1649Etching | 19.8 x 26.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853419
Creator(s)
Nicolas Chaperon (1612-c.1656) (etcher)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
A four-petalled flower with stem, the letters C [or G?] ATINAVD in a cartouche
19.8 x 26.5 cm (sheet of paper)
Apparuerunt ei tres viri, et cucurrit Abraham / de ostio tabernaculi sui, et adorauit in terra. Gen. XVIII.
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Bible & Holy Scripture
- Old Testament
- Bible & Holy Scripture
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.87, no.VI.16 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodino) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
p.446, G16.17 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
fig.38 (Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985)
pl.113, p.153 (Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008)