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Portraits

Portraits

PIETRO PEIROLERI (B. 1741)

Portrait of a Young Woman ('Dorothea')

c.1761-1800

Engraving | 29.5 x 21.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852118

A print of a portion of the so-called 'Dorothea', a painting by Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1512-13) formerly in the collection of the Duke of Marloborough at Blenheim, and now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (inv. no.295B); reproduced in reverse. Lettered with attribution to Raphael and line in Italian.
  • Creator(s)

    Pietro Peiroleri (b. 1741) (engraver)

    After Sebastiano Del Piombo (1485-1547) (artist)

    Pietro Peiroleri (b. 1741) (designer)

    After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

  • 29.5 x 21.6 cm (sheet of paper)

    27.0 x 21.5 cm (image)

  • Ritiro ed Onestà sono i miei pregi.

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

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    pp.144-7, no.22 (Sebastiano del Piombo 1485-1547 : edited by Claudio Strinati, Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann, 2008)