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Artist: Raphael (1483-1520)
Title: Sancta Margarita
Medium: Antique etching and engraving on laid paper after the original by master etcher/engraver Gilles Rousselet (French, 1610-1686).
Year: 1655 - 1685
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Reference: Meyer 2004 / L'oeuvre grave de Gilles Rousselet, graveur parisien du XVIIe siecle: catalogue général avec les reproductions de 405 estampes (126.II).
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image size 9 3/8 x 14 5/8 inches.
Framed dimensions: Approximately 20 x 25 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Additional notes:
Based on the painting in the Musee du Louvre (Inv.607), executed by Giulio Romano after a design by Raphael. Another example of the print can be found in the British Museum.
Extra Information:
St Margaret standing at center, with the dragon lying dead at her feet, its mouth gaping open; the saint holds a martyr's palm in one hand and gazes at the viewer.
Artist Biography:
Raphael, Italian in full Raffaello Sanzio or Raffaello Santi was a master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
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