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AFTER A WORK COPYING PIETRO PERUGINO (CITTÀ DELLA PIEVE C.1450-FONTIGNANO 1523)

Two figures seen from behind

c.1853-1876

Albumen print | 22.7 x 16.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854657

A photograph of a drawing depicting two standing men seen from behind now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice (inv. no. 20 verso). This drawing is on the verso of a sheet depicting a young woman (see RCIN 854664 for a photograph of the recto). Annotated on the verso.

Ferino Pagden (see Bibliographic References) catalogued the figure depicted to the right as a copy of one of the apostles in the 'Delivery of the Keys', frescoed c. 1481-1482 by Pietro Perugino in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican. The model for the figure to the left has not been recognised yet. Various copies of the same composition are also known. This drawing is squared up, although it has not been established whether this is actually to be attributed to a later hand, as the squaring up does not feature either in the etching published in 1829 by Luigi Celotti (see RCIN 854658 for it) or in the various copies after this drawing (one of them now in the Musée Conde, Chantilly, inv. no. 63 (55); a photograph of which can be afound at RCIN 854659).

Ferino Pagden (see Bibliographic References) catalogued the figure depicted in this drawing as a copy of the apostle to the right of St Peter in the 'Delivery of the Keys', frescoed c. 1481-1482 by Pietro Perugino in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican.

This drawing is part of the so-called "Libretto di Raffaello" or "Libretto Veneziano", 53 sheets that used to be mounted in a volume. After complicated negotiations, the sketchbook was bought by the museum in the 1820s, after the death of Giuseppe Bossi, who was its previous owner. A number of scholars debated the author of the drawings (with many names proposed, such as Pinturicchio, Antonio da Viterbo, Eusebio del Giorgio, Girolamo Genga) and their date. In 1984, the Gallerie dell'Accademia catalogued the drawings as by an artist contemporary to Raphael, whose juvenile works he copied in this sketchbook (see Bibliographic References).

  • Creator(s)

    After a work copying Pietro Perugino (Città della Pieve c.1450-Fontignano 1523) (artist)

  • left (?)

  • 22.7 x 16.6 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Life of Christ
            • Public Life of Christ
              • Christ's Charge to Peter (Donation of the Keys)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Italy
          • Lazio [Italy]
            • Rome [Lazio]
              • Vatican City [Rome]
                • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                  • Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]