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    BERNARD PICART (1673-1733)

    Composition of nude figures

    published 1734

    Etching | 21.6 x 29.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851720

    A facsimile etching of a drawing now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.271); reproduced in reverse. The poor state of the drawing has caused difficulties as to establish its authorship. The subject matter has also been a matter of dispute. Published in B. Picart, Impostures Innocentes, Amsterdam 1734, plate 3. A copy of Picart's volume can be found at RCIN 809004.

    • Creator(s)

      Bernard Picart (1673-1733) (etcher)

      After a work copying Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    • 21.6 x 29.8 cm (sheet of paper)

      14.0 x 21.2 cm (platemark)

    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • Other number(s)

      Ruland p.130 C.XVII.2

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