Mythology & Putti
AFTER A WORK PREVIOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
Children and putti playing
c.1853-76Albumen print | 17.2 x 24.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851877
A photograph of a drawing now in the Staatliche Kunstakademie, Kupferstichkabinett, in Düsseldorf (inv. no.D.208).
Another drawing of this subject survives in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.3887; photograph at RCIN 851878). The composition was reproduced in reverse in a chiaroscuro woodcut by the Monogrammist NDB, an impression of which can be found at RCIN 851879. Scholars have pointed out connections between this composition and the so-called 'Giuochi di putti', a set of tapestries designed by Giovanni da Udine/Tommaso Vincidor and woven in Flanders for Leo X. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
Creator(s)
After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
17.2 x 24.9 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Putti
- Children
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.335 (Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte))
