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Saints

Saints

AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

Female figures, and a naked infant carrying two buckets

c.1860-76

Carbon print | 24.3 x 19.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851463

A photograph of a drawing now in the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House (inv. no.725). The female figure on the left is a copy after Raphael's Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a painting currently in the National Gallery, London (inv. no.NG 168). The maiden with the pitcher is after a study by Ghirlandaio now in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.289E), made by the master for the fresco of the Birth of the Virgin in Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
  • Creator(s)

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

    After a work copying Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-94) (artist)

    Subject(s)

    Saint Catherine
  • 24.3 x 19.5 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • People
      • Children
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.112 A.VIII.9