Catalog Archive
Auction 126, Lot 794

"Discumbentibus, et Edentibus Discipulis, Dixit Jesus unus ex Vobis me Proditurus est",

Subject: Architecture

Period: 1775 (circa)

Publication: Les Loges de Raphael

Color: Hand Color

Size:
22 x 11.8 inches
55.9 x 30 cm
Download High Resolution Image
(or just click on image to launch the Zoom viewer)

This exquisite engraving depicts a section of architecture and painting within the papal palace at the Vatican. The engraving is after paintings by Raphael, master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. It is beautifully colored in the opaque style with watercolor gouache.

References:

Condition: A

Superb original color with minor surface soil in the margins. There are tissue hinge remnants on verso.

Estimate: $800 - $1,000

Sold for: $375

Closed on 12/3/2008

Archived