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Studies

Studies

AFTER A WORK COPYING POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO (C. 1499-1543)

A woman with a book and a running warrior

c.1853-1876

Albumen print | 18.0 x 15.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854362

A photograph of a red chalk drawing now in the Uffizi, Florence. Annotated on the verso.

This drawing depicts a woman holding a book and a running warrior. Ruland (1876) noted that a drawing now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice (inv. no. 525 recto; see RCIN 854363 for a photograph of it) is the original after which the figure on the left in the Uffizi drawing has been copied.
  • Creator(s)

    After a work copying Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1499-1543) (draughtsman)

    ? Raphael (1483-1520) (draughtsman)

  • annotation: left centre [verso, bottom centre, in ink]

  • 18.0 x 15.4 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Subject(s)
    • People
      • Women
    • Organisation
      • Documentation
        • Books
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Sports
        • Athletics
          • Running
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Religions of antiquity
          • Classical mythology
            • Sibyls (myth)
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.324 B.XVII.1