Tapestries
Tapestries
AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
Study of two horsemen and a running footsoldier
c.1853-76Albumen print | 24.4 x 23.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853147
A photograph of a drawing now in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem (inv. no.A 59). The drawing is a copy after a study by Raphael (c.1515-16) now in the Jean Bonna Collection, Geneva, made in preparation for the cartoon of 'The Conversion of Saul', designed by Raphael for one of the Sistine Chapel tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned by Pope Leo X. A photograph of Raphael's study can be found at RCIN 853146.
Creator(s)
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
24.4 x 23.8 cm (sheet of paper)
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.277-8, no.249 (van Tuyll van Serooskerken 2000 : van Tuyll van Serooskerken, C., 2000. The Italian drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Teyler Museum.)
