Studies
A female head
c.1853-1876Albumen print | 19.2 x 13.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854420
A photograph of a drawing of a woman's head attributed to Pietro Perugino now in the Royal Library, Windsor (RCIN 912797). Annotated on the verso.
The same head occurs with two others on a sheet of the so-called Libretto di Raffaello in the Accademia, Venice (see RCIN 854418 for a photograph of the sheet and information about the sketchbook). Ferino Pagden (see Bibliographic References) noted that the Libretto di Raffaello sheet was interpreted by Ernst Steinmann as being related to the fresco of 'The finding of Moses', painted by Pietro Perugino in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican and destroyed in 1540 by Michelangelo's 'Last Judgement'. Others scholars have associated the heads depicted in this drawing with other compositions in the Sistine Chapel.
Martin Clayton (see Bibliographic References) noted the Peruginesque character of the head of the Royal Collection drawing, though it is not certain whether it is an autograph drawing by Perugino or a faithful copy.
Creator(s)
After Pietro Perugino (Città della Pieve c. 1450-Fontignano 1523) (artist)
Associated with Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Blessed Virgin Maryannotation: middle top [verso, bottom centre, in ink]
19.2 x 13.7 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Medical sciences
- Anatomy
- Heads
- Anatomy
- Medical sciences
- Places
- Europe
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Science, Medicine and Technology
Bibliographic reference(s)
Clayton 1999 : Clayton, M. Raphael and his Circle. Drawings from Windsor Castle, London pp. 28-29, no. 2
P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London n. 24
Gallerie dell' Accademia di Venezia : catalogo dei disegni antichi. v. S. Ferino Pagden, Disegni Umbri (1984), pp. 71-72, no. 19 (for the drawing); pp. 13-31 (for the sketchbook)
Other number(s)
Ruland p.330 A.I.3
