print
- Museum number
- 1853,1008.201
- Title
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Object: Les Cinq Saints
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Object: Musée Royal
- Description
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The 'Five Saints': Christ in Glory, sitting on a cloud between the Virgin and St John the Baptist; below at left is St Paul and at the right is St Catherine of Alexandria, kneeling under the shade of a tree, leaning on her wheel and holding the martyr's palm in her hand; after Raphael
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1803-1820 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 502 millimetres
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Width: 352 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From 'Musée Royal', see 1853,1008.115 for comment on the series.
This print reproduces a print commonly called the Five Saints, originally made by Marcantonio Raimondi (see 1895,0915.113) and described by Vasari as engraved after Raphael. The figure of Christ is taken from a drawing at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu (82.GG.139). A drawing in the Louvre (inv. 3867), generally attributed to Raphael, is considered the modello for this print and also a painting by Giulio Romano, now in the Galleria Nazionale in Parma. For further bibliography see "Roma e lo stile classico di Raffaello", ed. by K. Oberhuber, Milan 1999, cat.182.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1853
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1853,1008.201