Studies
Studies
AFTER A WORK BY THE SCHOOL OF RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
Three female heads
c.1853-1876Albumen print | 13.0 x 10.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854440
A photograph of a drawing attributed to a member of Raphael's studio now in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem (inv. no. A 66).
This small drawing was published for the first time in 1983 but its attribution to Raphael has been questioned since. In the catalogue of the Italian drawings in the Teylers Museum (see Bibliographic References), it is catalogued as a "compilation by a pupil of heads drawn or invented by the master".
Two of the three female heads depicted here are connected to known compositions by Raphael. The top left head is identical to that of Venus in 'Venus entreating Jupiter', a pendentive fresco in the Villa Farnesina, Agostino Chigi's villa in Rome, which was frescoed with mythological subjects by Raphael's workshop c.1518 (see RCIN 853960 for a photograph of the fresco and RCIN 853914.d for a print reproducing the scene of Venus entreating Jupiter).
The bottom head is close to that of the Madonna in a drawing now in the Louvre (inv. no. 3862; for a photograph of the drawing, see RCIN 851036) for the 'Holy Family of Francis I', a painting attributed to Raphael and his workshop (1518) currently in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.604). The top right head has not been linked to any Raphaelesque compositions, but it "may well be connected with Psyche in The Council of Gods on the Farnesina ceiling", or to other figures in the same fresco.
This small drawing was published for the first time in 1983 but its attribution to Raphael has been questioned since. In the catalogue of the Italian drawings in the Teylers Museum (see Bibliographic References), it is catalogued as a "compilation by a pupil of heads drawn or invented by the master".
Two of the three female heads depicted here are connected to known compositions by Raphael. The top left head is identical to that of Venus in 'Venus entreating Jupiter', a pendentive fresco in the Villa Farnesina, Agostino Chigi's villa in Rome, which was frescoed with mythological subjects by Raphael's workshop c.1518 (see RCIN 853960 for a photograph of the fresco and RCIN 853914.d for a print reproducing the scene of Venus entreating Jupiter).
The bottom head is close to that of the Madonna in a drawing now in the Louvre (inv. no. 3862; for a photograph of the drawing, see RCIN 851036) for the 'Holy Family of Francis I', a painting attributed to Raphael and his workshop (1518) currently in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.604). The top right head has not been linked to any Raphaelesque compositions, but it "may well be connected with Psyche in The Council of Gods on the Farnesina ceiling", or to other figures in the same fresco.
Creator(s)
After a work by the school of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (draughtsman)
13.0 x 10.0 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
- Anatomy
- Medical sciences
- Science, Medicine and Technology
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp. 266-267, no. 239 (van Tuyll van Serooskerken 2000 : van Tuyll van Serooskerken, C., 2000. The Italian drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Teyler Museum.)
