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Drapery studies for the figure of Homer
1860Albumen print | 30.8 x 20.9 cm (image) | RCIN 2864181
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 453). The drapery studies connect with the figure of Homer, standing in the upper left of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
A copy of this photograph (RCIN 852483) can be found in the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection, portfolio 25 (970584)
Creator(s)
After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
Attributed to Robert Jefferson Bingham (1825-70) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Homer (active 850 BC?)30.8 x 20.9 cm (image)
Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- People
- Poets
- Places
- Europe
- Mount Parnassus [Greece]
- Europe
- Geography
- Physiography
- Mountains
- Physiography
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- People
Bibliographic reference(s)
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.191, no.237r
Brejon de Lavergnée 1997 : Brejon de Lavergnée, B, 1997. Catalogue des dessins Italiens. Collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Paris pp.187-8, no.537v
