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Joahann Prestel after Raphael The Sacrifice at Lystra etching with aquatint

Joahann Prestel after Raphael The Sacrifice at Lystra etching with aquatint

Lot: 278

(German 1739-1808) / (Italian 1483-1520)
right panel from The Sacrifice at Lystra
etching with aquatint,
sheet: 17.5 x 12.75 inches overall with matting: 23.25 x 18.75 inches,
dated and lettered with details in the bottom margin.
Literature: Published in Johann Gottlieb Prestel, Dessins des meilleurs Peintres dItalie, dAllemagne, et des Pays-Bas, du Cabinet de Monsieur Paul de Praun Nuremberg, 1780, plate 21, Notes: The composition corresponds with the right half of Raphaels tapestry cartoon of The Sacrifice at Lystra designed in c. 1515-16 for one of the Sistine Chapel tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X.

Auction Date: May 15, 2021

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