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    AFTER A WORK ATTRIBUTED TO RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

    Portrait of Pope Julius II

    after 1860

    Carbon print | 33.1 x 23.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852032

    A photograph of a drawing now in the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House (inv. no.757). The drawing corresponds with the Portrait of Pope Julius II, a painting made by Raphael in c.1511 now in the National Gallery, London (inv. NG 27). The authorship of the drawings is still debated, with some scholars regarding it as a workshop copy (Dussler) and others accepting it as a Raphael autograph work (Joannides, Plazzotta). Another photograph of the drawing at RCIN 852031.

    • Creator(s)

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

    • annotation: P.150 / XIII.9.a Pf.20 85 Chatsworth [back, in pencil]

    • 33.1 x 23.2 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)

    • Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford pp.78-80, no.23; p.205, no.291

      Chapman/Plazzotta/Henry 2004 : Chapman, H, Plazzotta, C, Henry, T. Raphael. From Urbino to Rome. London, 2004 pp.276-7, no.100 (entry by Carol Plazzotta)

      Capellen 2008 : Capellen, JM, 2008. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 3, The Roman Portraits ca.1508-1520 pp.104-6, under no.71; p.106, no.71/I.1

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.150 A.XIII.9a(add)

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