AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

Study of a male head

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 26.2 x 20.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851365

A photograph of a drawing by Raphael formerly in the collection of J. Malcolm, Esq. and now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.1895,0915.610). The drawing is a study of the head of St Thomas in the Coronation of the Virgin, the main panel of the 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.

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After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

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Saint Thomas
26.2 x 20.4 cm (sheet of paper)
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Catalogue of the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. v. P. Pouncey and J.A.Gere, Raphael and His Circle (1962); pp.5-6, no.5

Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.145, no.50

Knab/Mitsch/Oberhuber 1983 : Raffaello. I disegni 1983 : I disegni. (Catalogo dei Disegni a cura di Oberhuber, Ferino Pagden, Huber), Florence 1983 p.586, no.45

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Ruland p.104 A.I.17

Study of a male head

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