Man op steigerend paard in water, erboven twee wijzende engelen, Richard de Saint-Non, after Jean Honoré Fragonard, after Giulio Romano, 1771

Title(s)

Man op steigerend paard in water, erboven twee wijzende engelen
Fragmenten gekozen uit schilderingen en schilderijen in Italië (series title)
Fragments choisis dans les peintures et les tableaux les plus intéressants de l'Italie (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

34

Object number

RP-P-1950-238

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• printmaker: Richard de Saint-Non (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Jean Honoré Fragonard (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Giulio Romano

Dating

1771

Material

• paper

Technique

aquatint / etching

Measurements

height 197 mm × width 158 mm

What

• the battle of the Milvian bridge (Saxa Rubra): St. Constantine on horseback confronts Maxentius; a cross appears in the sky with in fiery letters 'in hoc signo vinces' (the raised standards of the Roman soldiers carry a cross or the chi-rho monogram)

Acquisition

purchase 1950

Copyright

Public domain

• Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français [1907], jaargang 1963, cat.nr. 158