Studies
Studies
Sketches of cattle
c.1853-1876Albumen print | RCIN 854512
A photograph of a detail of drawing by Raphael (c.1511-1512) now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 912735). Annotated on the verso.
This drawing depicts a group of cattle lying down and one drinking, a sketch considered by Popham and Wilde (see Bibliographic References) to have been made by the artist from nature.
This drawing is on the verso of a sheet with a life study of a figure for the 'Resurrection of Christ', an unexecuted altarpiece frequently connected with the decoration of the Chigi Chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome. Raphael used the figure in the Windsor drawing in mirror-image for one of the soldiers in his fresco of 'The Liberation of St Peter', painted in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican with the collaboration of his workshop (for further discussion, see Bibliographic References). See RCINs 850480 and 852738 for photographs of the recto.
This drawing depicts a group of cattle lying down and one drinking, a sketch considered by Popham and Wilde (see Bibliographic References) to have been made by the artist from nature.
This drawing is on the verso of a sheet with a life study of a figure for the 'Resurrection of Christ', an unexecuted altarpiece frequently connected with the decoration of the Chigi Chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome. Raphael used the figure in the Windsor drawing in mirror-image for one of the soldiers in his fresco of 'The Liberation of St Peter', painted in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican with the collaboration of his workshop (for further discussion, see Bibliographic References). See RCINs 850480 and 852738 for photographs of the recto.
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
