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Drapery study and sketch of a right hand
1860Albumen print | 31.6 x 22.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2864182
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 445). The drapery study and the sketch of the right hand are for the figure of Homer, standing to the left of the central group in Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
A copy of this photograph (RCIN 852509) can be found in the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection, portfolio 25 (970584)
Creator(s)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Attributed to Robert Jefferson Bingham (1825-70) (photographer)
31.6 x 22.3 cm (image)
Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Bibliographic reference(s)
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford
p.191, no.236vBrejon de Lavergnée 1997 : Brejon de Lavergnée, B, 1997. Catalogue des dessins Italiens. Collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Paris
p.188, no.538r
