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Studies

Studies

AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

Two men advancing over the body of a third

c.1853-1876

Albumen print | 24.2 x 15.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854368

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing by Raphael (c.1506-1508) now in the British Museum (inv. no. Pp,1.75). Annotated on the verso.

This drawing depicts two men advancing over the body of a third. This drawing comes from a period when Raphael was copying Florentine art and it has been associated with two drawings now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. nos. WA1846.178 and WA1846.179 recto and verso; see RCINs 852251, 852852 and 852853 for photographs of these drawings). This drawing features a study for a nude man on the verso (see RCIN 854369 for a photograph of it).
  • Creator(s)

    After Raphael (1483-1520) (draughtsman)

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

  • 24.2 x 15.7 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Subject(s)
    • People
      • Men
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    Italian Drawings [...] British Museum: Raphael and his circle: catalogue, 1962 / Philip Pouncey and J.A. Gere, London p. 14, no. 17

    Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p. 179, no. 187r

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.324 B.XXII.1