A young woman crowned with laurel

A lithograph of a drawing now in the Albertina, Vienna. This print is lettered at the bottom with production details; signed by the printmaker and lettered with the attribution to Raphael. Published in N. Förster, Lithographirte Copien von Original Handzeichnungen berühmter alter Meister der Italienischen schule aus der Sammlung seiner Kaiserlichen Hoheit des durchlauchtigsten Erzherzogs Carl von Oesterreich, 2 vols., Vienna (Mansfeld et Comp.), 1829-34.

The print reproduces a drawing depicting a young woman crowned with laurel; a photograph of which can be found at RCIN 854451.

Between 1829 and 1834 the lithographic printers Mansfeld and Company, who were based in Vienna, published two volumes of lithographic copies after drawings then in the collection of Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen; volume one contained drawings attributed to the the Italian school, and volume two the German and Flemish school.