David and Goliath, after Raphael
circa 1520-1525
15th-16th century
26.6 cm x 39 cm (10 1/2 in. x 15 3/8 in.)
Marcantonio Raimondi
(Argini, Italy, circa 1470 or 1482 - circa 1527-1534, Bologna, Italy)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Engraving
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002
Accession Number:
2002.1708
The composition derives from one of Raphael’s frescoes in the vaults of the Vatican Logge, although it may depend immediately upon a drawn version by one of his pupils. Bartsch and Passavant praise the engraving as one of Raimondi’s “most considerable”, its pictorial effects especially coherent, at the same time its line unusually fluent, thus predicting the next stage in the development of reproductive engraving. Impressions like this one, before the addition of Raimondi’s signature tablet were according to Bartsch, already “extremely rare”.