The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de Caylus (1692-1765)
A battle scene with prisoners being pinioned published 1729
Etching | 29.8 x 45.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852854
A facsimile of the recto of a drawing by Raphael now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.179 r). Lettered with description of image, production details and provenance of the work (collection of Pierre Crozat). Numbered in the lower right corner: 46. Annotated in pencil at upper right: 124. Published in Recueil de Crozat, Paris 1729, plate 46.
The drawing has been formerly connected with the fresco of The Victory at Ostia painted in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican in c.1514-15. It is now generally thought to be a much earlier work dated c.1507-08.
The drawing has been formerly connected with the fresco of The Victory at Ostia painted in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican in c.1514-15. It is now generally thought to be a much earlier work dated c.1507-08.
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Creator(s)
Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de Caylus (1692-1765) (etcher)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
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annotation: 124 [front, upper right, in pencil]
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29.8 x 45.4 cm (sheet of paper)
28.0 x 44.0 cm (platemark)
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ESTUDE POUR LE TABLEAU DE LA DESCENTE DES SARRAZINS AU PORT D'OSTIE.
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Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.210 B.IV.12
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