Life and Legend of the Virgin Mary
Life and Legend of the Virgin Mary
AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
Head of a man looking upwards
c.1853-76Albumen print | 28.9 x 18.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851360
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1502-03) formerly in the Wicar Museum, Lille and now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 482). The drawing is a preparatory study for one of the figures of the Apostles looking upwards in the lower half of the 'Coronation of the Virgin', the main panel of the so-called 'Oddi Altarpiece' (or 'Pala Oddi') executed 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.
Creator(s)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
28.9 x 18.2 cm (sheet of paper)
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.144, no.46r (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
p.586, no.46 (Knab/Mitsch/Oberhuber 1983 : Raffaello. I disegni 1983 : I disegni. (Catalogo dei Disegni a cura di Oberhuber, Ferino Pagden, Huber), Florence 1983)
p.179, no.515 (Brejon de Lavergnée 1997 : Brejon de Lavergnée, B, 1997. Catalogue des dessins Italiens. Collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Paris)
