Portraits
AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)
A self-portrait of Raphael?
c.1853-1876Albumen print | 37.5 x 26.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850007
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.158).
This is a very controversial drawing: it was traditionally considered a self-portrait of Raphael (c.1500), but Parker (see Bibliographic References) dated it c.1504 and did not identify Raphael as the sitter. The drawing is inscribed by a later hand "Ritratto di se medessimo quando giovane", which translates as "portrait of himself when a youth"; the same inscription is found on a drawing now in the British Museum (inv. no. 1860,0616.94; see RCIN 850005 for a photograph of it).
This is a very controversial drawing: it was traditionally considered a self-portrait of Raphael (c.1500), but Parker (see Bibliographic References) dated it c.1504 and did not identify Raphael as the sitter. The drawing is inscribed by a later hand "Ritratto di se medessimo quando giovane", which translates as "portrait of himself when a youth"; the same inscription is found on a drawing now in the British Museum (inv. no. 1860,0616.94; see RCIN 850005 for a photograph of it).
Creator(s)
After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Raphael (1483-1520)37.5 x 26.3 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- visual works
Bibliographic reference(s)
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p. 136, no. 9
Other number(s)
Ruland p.3 A.III.1
