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A study for a hand
1858Albumen print? | RCIN 2864218
A photograph of a drawing depicting a study of a hand now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice (inv. no. 19 recto). This drawing features on the verso various studies for draped figures. Annotated on the verso.
The Gallerie dell'Accademia (see Bibliographic References) noted that this drawing has been retouched by a later artist.
This drawing is part of the so-called "Libretto di Raffaello" or "Libretto Veneziano", 53 sheets that used to be mounted in a volume. After complicated negotiations, the sketchbook was bought by the museum in the 1820s, after the death of Giuseppe Bossi, who was its previous owner. A number of scholars debated the author of the drawings (with many names proposed, such as Pinturicchio, Antonio da Viterbo, Eusebio del Giorgio, Girolamo Genga) and their date. In 1984, the Gallerie dell'Accademia catalogued the drawings as by an artist contemporary to Raphael, whose juvenile works he copied in this sketchbook (see Bibliographic References).
A copy of this photograph (RCIN 854289) can be found in the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection, portfolio 47 (970607)
Creator(s)
After a work copying Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
Attributed to Florence : Alinari (photographer)
- Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Medical sciences
- Anatomy
- Human anatomy
- Hands (human)
- Human anatomy
- Anatomy
- Medical sciences
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Science, Medicine and Technology
Bibliographic reference(s)
Gallerie dell' Accademia di Venezia : catalogo dei disegni antichi. v. S. Ferino Pagden, Disegni Umbri (1984), pp. 127-128, no. 47 (for the drawing); pp. 13-31 (for the sketchbook)
