Artist: Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (Italy, 1483 – 1520).
Engraver: Gérard Audran (or Girard Audran) (1640 – 1703) was a French engraver. He is considered to be one of the most notable members of the famous Audran dynasty of engravers.
Title: La mission des Apôtres (The mission of the Apostles).
Signed and Annotated in plate beneath the image: Non enim sumus adulterantes verbum Dei sed ex sinceritate sed sicut ex, Deo coram Deo, in Christo loquimur. 2. cor. 2. 17.; g. Audran scul. Se vent chez N. Le Roy, au Faub. St-Marcel au Lion d'argent.
Dimensions: Sheet 4" x 6 1/4". The left edge is cut unevenly.
Publisher: De Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo (Italy, 1627?-1691).
Date: XVII C.
Materials and Techniques: etching on laid paper.
Watermark: no
Mat and Frame: back sheet
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: Both the upper right corner and the right part of the print with G. Audran's signature are cut off. Other margins are trimmed to the plate mark. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Catalog Raisonne: Le peintre-graveur français ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch · Volume 9. No. 130.
Museums and Libraries: We could not locate another copy of this etching as it was described in The "Le peintre-graveur français". There is a different copy in the Bibliothèque de l'ESAD (Ecole supérieure d'art et de design de Valenciennes). Bibliothèques universitaires UVHC (Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis). (University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis; Valenciennes, France) (with an additional letters "Raphael in. Rossi Roma" on the lower margin and with erased in the plate letters "Se vent chez N. Le Roy, au Faub. St-Marcel au Lion d'argent").
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: French School XVII C.
Note: This entry incorporates text from the catalog entry and uses the catalog description of the same item from the collection of the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis; Valenciennes, France.