AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

Head and right forearm of a male figure playing a musical instrument

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 27.6 x 19.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851359

A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1502-03) now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.Pp,1.67). The drawing is a study for the figure of the angel on the extreme right in the upper half of the Coronation of the Virgin, the main panel of the so-called Oddi Altarpiece (or Pala Oddi) painted by Raphael in c.1502-03 and now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City (inv. no.334). Photographs of the Coronation of the Virgin at RCINs 851349, 851350, 851351.

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After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
27.6 x 19.3 cm (sheet of paper)
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
  Religions and faiths
  Christianity
  Angels, demons, devils, saints
  Angels
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Bibliographic reference(s)

Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.143, no.44

Catalogue of the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. v. P. Pouncey and J.A.Gere, Raphael and His Circle (1962); p.5, no.4

Knab/Mitsch/Oberhuber 1983 : Raffaello. I disegni 1983 : I disegni. (Catalogo dei Disegni a cura di Oberhuber, Ferino Pagden, Huber), Florence 1983 p.585, no.40

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Ruland p.104 A.I.11

Head and right forearm of a male figure playing a musical instrument

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