Ananias, rebuked by St. Peter, falls down and dies. Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520) (cartoon creator) [painter] Lefebvre, Pierre (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1650 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: Cardinal (Jules) Mazarin (d. 1661) coll. (9 pieces). Marquis de Mancini coll. (9 pieces ?). Crown of Italy, Palazzo reale (Milan) (7 pieces). Additional panel in set documented in archives in Monaco. Italy, Marches, Pesaro e Urbino, Urbino, Palazzo Ducale. Inscriptions: Inscription on cartouche in lower border: ACTA POST CAP

Ananias, rebuked by St. Peter, falls down and dies. Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520) (cartoon creator) [painter] Lefebvre, Pierre (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1650 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: Cardinal (Jules) Mazarin (d. 1661) coll. (9 pieces). Marquis de Mancini coll. (9 pieces ?). Crown of Italy, Palazzo reale (Milan) (7 pieces). Additional panel in set documented in archives in Monaco. Italy, Marches, Pesaro e Urbino, Urbino, Palazzo Ducale. Inscriptions: Inscription on cartouche in lower border: ACTA POST CAP Standing on rostrum, Peter, surrounded by apostles, lashes out at Ananias who falls down & dies (Acts: 5:1-6); group of figures look on in horror (UPR BRD) coat of arms flanked by putti heads & festoons tethered to corbels; (L & R BRD) column-figure in profile with spiral fruit festoon; (LWR BRD) inscribed cartouche on trompe-l'oeil architectural molding There are 7 panels at the Palazzo ducale, Urbino. This set may have been woven to complete the partial Mobilier set which Mazarin acquired from the sale of Charles I's goods (Campbell). The 16th century Brussels panels show this composition in reverse (Steele). Fénaille, Gobelins 1 (1903-1923), 282 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0245234-0245258; compositionally similar tapestries: 0181956, 0181958, 0239910, 0239954, 0239964, 0239973, 0238453

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