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    AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

    Head of St Jerome

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | 12.2 x 10.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851575

    A photograph of a silverpoint study by Raphael (c.1504-05) now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.435). Ruland (1876) listed the drawing as being then in the Wicar Museum, Lille.

    • Creator(s)

      After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    • 12.2 x 10.1 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Angels, demons, devils, saints
              • Saints (Christianity)
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      p.150, no.74 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

      p.183, no.527 (Brejon de Lavergnée 1997 : Brejon de Lavergnée, B, 1997. Catalogue des dessins Italiens. Collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Paris)

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