Jacob meets Rachel c.1721-49
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks | 22.2 x 28.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853471
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A chiaroscuro woodcut reproducing, in reverse, the fresco of Jacob meets Rachel painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the fifth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. Signed by the printmaker at bottom right and inscribed bottom left: Ex Raph Urbinatis Schede.
Zanetti revived the chiaroscuro woodcut, a prevalent technique of sixteenth-century Italian printmaking. Zanetti published a collection of chiaroscuro woodcuts, primarily after works by Parmigianino, but also including some after Raphael, in the late 1720s under the title Diversarum Iconum and again in a third edition of 1749 with the title 'Raccolta di varie stampe...'. See RCINs 853407, 853424, 853429, 853437, 853457 and 853531 for other chiaroscuro woodcuts by Zanetti after Loggia frescoes.Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Medium and techniques
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks
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22.2 x 28.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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Bibliographic reference(s)
Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985 fig.55
Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 pl.120, p.161