Saints
Saints
AFTER A WORK PREVIOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
A standing female saint
c.1853-76Albumen print | 29.1 x 15.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851568
A photograph of a pricked cartoon by Raphael (c.1503-04) now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.783 D.R., Collection Edmond de Rothschild). The cartoon was used for the 'St Catherine of Alexandria', a small panel by Raphael formerly in the collections of Contini-Bonacossi (Florence), Spencer A. Samuels (New York) and Marcos (Philippines), and now in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino (inv.1990 D 73).
Although used for a panel depicting 'St Catherine', the subject of the cartoon is still a matter of dispute because the female figure bears the attributes of both St Catherine of Alexandria and St Apolline. Ruland (1876) catalogued the cartoon as being then in the collection of B. Suermondt (1818-87; Lugt 415) and interpreted it as St Agatha holding a pair of pincers. A photograph of a similar drawing currently housed in the Royal Library in Turin at RCIN 851569.
Creator(s)
After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
29.1 x 15.6 cm (sheet of paper)
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.150, no.71 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
p.583, no.22 (Knab/Mitsch/Oberhuber 1983 : Raffaello. I disegni 1983 : I disegni. (Catalogo dei Disegni a cura di Oberhuber, Ferino Pagden, Huber), Florence 1983)
pp.186-7, no.18B/I.1 (Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 )
