David and Bathsheba - Cesare Fantetti Etching after Raphael - 1674
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Original etching and engraving with David catching sight of Bathsheba bathing from the terrace of his palace, while the troops file past, after Raphael's fresco in the Vatican Loggias. At the foot: "Vidit David de solario domus regiae Bethsabeam uxorem Uriae se lavantem: tulit eam. Reg. II c. XI". Number 44 in the series.
Original etching and engraving with David catching sight of Bathsheba bathing from the terrace of his palace, while the troops file past, after Raphael's fresco in the Vatican Loggias. At the foot: "Vidit David de solario domus regiae Bethsabeam uxorem Uriae se lavantem: tulit eam. Reg. II c. XI". Number 44 in the series.
The series Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, known as Raphael's Bible, translated into print the frescoes Raphael and his workshop painted in the Vatican Loggias. It was published in Rome by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi in 1674, with images by Cesare Fantetti and Pietro Aquila.
Medium: Etching and engraving.
Artist / after: Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520), Vatican Loggias.
Engraver: Cesare Fantetti, active in Rome in the last third of the 17th century.
Date: 1674.
Source: Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, Rome, Gio. Giacomo de Rossi, 1674.
Dimensions: Plate mark 9.4 x 11 in (24 x 28 cm); sheet 14.6 x 18.9 in (37 x 48 cm).
Condition: Good condition. Light browning and handling soil in the margins; within the plate mark clean and crisply printed, with wide margins.
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Original etching and engraving with David catching sight of Bathsheba bathing from the terrace of his palace, while the troops file past, after Raphael's fresco in the Vatican Loggias. At the foot: "Vidit David de solario domus regiae Bethsabeam uxorem Uriae se lavantem: tulit eam. Reg. II c. XI". Number 44 in the series.