Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh gift 1937 to NGA. Laurent Le Tessier de Montarsy, by 1729 Pierre Crozat, Paris, by 1729 by inheritance to his nephews, first to Louis-François Crozat, marquis du Châtel, Paris, and then to Louis-Antoine Crozat, baron de Thiers the latter's heirs purchased 1772, through Denis Diderot as an intermediary, by Catherine II, empress of Russia, for the Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg purchased March 1931 through (Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin P. Charles d'Escoubleau, Marquis de Sourdis, possibly acquired from Bass. William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire, by 1627 possibly his brother, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House given either by the 3rd Earl or the 4th Earl between 16 to Charles I, King of England (Charles I sale, Somerset House, London, 19 December 1651) purchased by Edward Bass. Scholarship has shown that the panel was made for the king's emissary, Gilbert Talbot, and not as a gift directly for the king, as was previously thought. Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro of Urbino was made a knight of the prestigious order in 1504 by King Henry VII of England. Its inscription, HONI, begins the phrase Honi soit qui mal y pense (Disgraced be he who thinks ill of it), the motto of the chivalric Order of the Garter, of which George is the patron saint. One unusual feature of the painting is the saint's blue garter on his armor–covered leg. A Roman soldier of Christian faith, Saint George saved the daughter of a pagan king by subduing a dragon with his lance the princess then led the dragon to the city, where the saint killed it with his sword, prompting the king and his subjects to convert to Christianity.
#DRAGON LANDSCAPE. SERIES#
Saint George and the Dragon, one of two versions of the theme by the artist, belonged to a series of miniature panels that Raphael painted in Florence for the celebrated court of Urbino. He moved to Florence toward the end of 1504. Raphael was born in Urbino, a central Italian duchy noted for its elegant gentility and Renaissance scholarship. A few taller trees are outlined against the baby-blue sky, which lightens toward the horizon. Two terracotta-orange towers rise from a row of trees along the horizon. Around the woman, straw-yellow hills with bands of pine-green trees roll into the distance. She wears a ruby-red dress and a sheer white wrap around her shoulders and across her arms. She has a straight nose, pale pink, bow-shaped lips, and her blond hair is pulled back in a bun. She tilts her head away from us and gazes past the man and horse. In a field a little farther back, to our right, the woman kneels with her body angled to our left. A tall outcropping over a cave rises along the left edge of the composition, behind the dragon. The dragon opens its pointed snout to show its teeth, and bat-like wings splay out. It twists its long, snake-like neck to look at the man with dark eyes. It grips the earth with clawed feet as at pushes at the lance with one front foot.
#DRAGON LANDSCAPE. SKIN#
The dragon has tawny brown skin with a mint green, dog-like head.
A strap around the horse’s neck is painted in gold with the name, “RAPHELLO.” The rider thrusts his foot into the stirrup we can see as he plunges a lance down at the dragon under the horse’s front feet. The horse wears a blue saddle and bridle, the same color as the man’s cape, trimmed with gold.
It rears on its hind legs as it turns its head to look at us with hazel-brown eyes. The horse is white with a silvery-white mane and tail. A narrow, indigo-blue and gold band is tied around his left calf, and is inscribed with the word “HONI.” A black sword hangs from his left side. Armor covers his entire body, and a celestial-blue cape billows behind him from where it fastens around his neck. The man has a straight nose and honey-brown hair under his gold-trimmed, pewter-gray helmet. At the center of the composition, the man faces our left in profile as he looks down at the creature. Both people have pale skin and thin, gold halos floating above their heads. A man wearing armor, sitting astride a cream-white horse, drives a long lance down at a lizard-like dragon as a woman kneels with her hands in prayer in the landscape beyond in this vertical painting.
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