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    AFTER A WORK ATTRIBUTED TO ANDREA DEL SARTO (FLORENCE 1486-FLORENCE 1530)

    The head of a young man

    c.1853-1876

    Albumen print | 31.0 x 23.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854441

    A photograph of a drawing that Ruland (1876) catalogued as being then in the collection of Mr Boulton. This drawing depicts a man in profile. Annotated on the verso.

    This drawing is now in the collection of Frits Lugt and it has been     catalogued as by Andrea del Sarto. This is a preparatory drawing for the head of the donor in the so-called 'Tobias Altarpiece' by Andrea del Sarto, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. 182).

    • Creator(s)

      After a work attributed to Andrea del Sarto (Florence 1486-Florence 1530) (draughtsman)

      After a work associated with Raphael (1483-1520) (draughtsman)

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

    • 31.0 x 23.0 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
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • Other number(s)

      Ruland p.332 A.XXI.1

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