Raphael's drawings, as well as those attributed to him in the 19th century
Raphael's drawings, as well as those attributed to him in the 19th century
Albumen print | 22.6 x 16.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854531
Ferino Pagden (see Bibliographic References) notes that Giuseppe Bossi, a previous owner of the Libretto Veneziano, believed this drawing to depict a section of the famous Etruscan walls of Volterra.
This drawing is part of the so-called "Libretto di Raffaello" or "Libretto Veneziano", 53 sheets that used to be mounted in a volume. After complicated negotiations, the sketchbook was bought by the museum in the 1820s, after the death of Giuseppe Bossi, who was its previous owner. A number of scholars debated the author of the drawings (with many names proposed, such as Pinturicchio, Antonio da Viterbo, Eusebio del Giorgio, Girolamo Genga) and their date. In 1984, the Gallerie dell'Accademia catalogued the drawings as by an artist contemporary to Raphael, whose juvenile works he copied in this sketchbook (see Bibliographic References).
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
22.6 x 16.2 cm (sheet of paper)
Ruland p. 343 A.XVI.1
Gallerie dell' Accademia di Venezia : catalogo dei disegni antichi. v. S. Ferino Pagden, Disegni Umbri (1984), pp. 103-104, no. 35 (for the drawing); pp. 13-31 (for the sketchbook)