Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione

After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) Italian

1870

Not on view

Dubouchet's meticulous engraving reproduces a celebrated sixteenth-century portrait of the author and ambassador Castiglione by his friend Raphael in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. In 1869, the engraver, who made a number of prints after the Italian Renaissance artist, solicited a commission from the Chalcographie du Louvre to create this work. Founded at the end of the eighteenth century, the Chalcographie's mission was to assure the diffusion of works of art by copper engraving. During the Second Empire (1852–70), it was particularly active in commissioning engravings after the masterpieces in the Louvre's collection. Prints after Raphael were especially popular as he was held up as an artistic paradigm throughout the nineteenth century.

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Title: Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
Engraver: Henri Dubouchet (French, Caluire 1833–1909 Paris)
Artist: After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)
Sitter: Baldassare Castiglione (Italian, 1478–1529)
Date: 1870
Medium: Engraving; proof
Dimensions: Plate: 12 3/16 × 9 in. (31 × 22.8 cm)
Sheet: 17 15/16 × 14 in. (45.6 × 35.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2013
Object Number: 2013.525.6
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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