MORITZ STEINLA

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• Madonna and Child with St. Jerome, the Archangel Raphael and the Young Tobias – The Madonna of the Fish – Sanctissima Virgo a pisce dicta (after RAPHAEL) 1854
  etching and engraving on wove paper; plate 610 x 460 mm (24 x 18 1/8 inches)
  
  Andresen (Handbuch) 5 final state; Apell 7 third (final) state
  

  PROVENANCE
  John S. Phillips, Philadelphia; bequeathed in 1876 to
  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts;
  de-accessioned in 1985 and acquired by
  Philadelphia Museum of Art
  (Muriel and Philip Berman Gift in 1985; with the acc. no. 1985-52-42162)
  de-accessioned in 2017

• The Sistine Madonna, detail (after RAPHAEL) 1858
  etching and engraving on wove paper; plate 631 x 392 mm (24 13/16 x 15 7/16 inches)
  
  Apell 3 final state
  

  PROVENANCE
  with the dry-stamp of the publisher Ernst Sigismund Arnold, Dresden (Lugt 4365)
  John S. Phillips, Philadelphia; bequeathed in 1876 to
  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts;
  de-accessioned in 1985 and acquired by
  Philadelphia Museum of Art
  (Muriel and Philip Berman Gift in 1985; with the acc. no. 1985-52-42165)
  de-accessioned in 2017

  Steinla engraved the group with Madonna and Child; the surrounding clouds were engraved by Jakob Felsing (1802–1883).