Figures in a variety of poses

A photograph of a drawing catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being once in the Desperet Collection in Paris. The drawing copies figures from the tapestry of 'St Paul Preaching at Athens', one of the ten tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. The original tapestries were woven in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst and are currently housed in the Vatican Museums.