MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (1480-1534) AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)
The Lamentation over the Body of Christ
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MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (1480-1534) AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)
In the foreground, the lifeless body of Christ lays across the lap of two of the three Marys, who have joined the Virgin in her lament, while Saint John the Baptist and others have solemnly gathered behind them. The engraving is based on a pen and brown ink drawing by Raphael, now at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.170). The drawing records the artist's first idea for a painting, which was subsequently rejected and and the subject changed from a Lamentation to a Deposition. Raphael's final, painted version - today known as the Borghese Entombment (Galleria Borghese, Rome; inv.no. 170) was the central panel for the altarpiece of San Francesco al Prato in Perugia, the so-called Pala Baglioni. It was commissioned by the noblewoman Atalanta Baglioni in commemoration of her son Grifonetto, who was murdered in a family feud in 1500, at the age of 23. The painting was completed in 1507. It was Raphael's last commission for Perugia, where he had been trained by Perugino.
The pained expressions of the Virgin and Mary Magdalene, representing the anguish and sorrow of Grifonetto's mother and his young widow Zenobia, can be contemplated in both the painting and the engraving.
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In addition to the catalogue description: - trimmed within the platemark but outside the borderline. - some scattered pinholes visible in backlight. - a few pinpoint foxmarks and pale foxmarks in places. - a portion of the blank sky slightly disturbed. - tipped to the mount at upper corners verso. - with a band a of thin Japan paper along the sheet edges verso, old strips of wove paper at the corners verso. Otherwise as described.
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Lot 21Sale 20187
The Lamentation over the Body of ChristMARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (1480-1534) AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)Estimate: GBP 800 - 1,200
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