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Studies

Studies

AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

Studies for the Virgin's drapery and a male head

c.1853-1876

Albumen print | 22.8 x 31.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854447

A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1507-08) currently in the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (inv. no.310). Ruland (1876) catalogued the drawing as being then in the collection of M. His de la Salle, Paris. Annotated on the verso.

This drawing depicts a study for the drapery of the Virgin in the so-called ‘Madonna del Baldacchino’ (c.1507-08), now in the Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence (inv. no.1912, no.165). Joannides (see Bibliographic References) interpreted the male head as a copy of a fifteenth century portrait, perhaps by Lorenzo di Credi.

This drawing features sketches of a Virgin and Child on the verso: see RCIN 851216 for a photograph of the verso.
  • Creator(s)

    After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (draughtsman)

  • p. 310 XXXV

  • 22.8 x 31.5 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
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p. 176, no. 179r (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)