Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
A draped man leaning on a parapet
c.1853-76Salted paper print | RCIN 852582
A photograph of a drawing now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 990241). The drawing is a copy from the figure of the philosopher watching the young man writing, leaning on a pilaster at the top right of the stairs in Raphael's 'School of Athens', painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican.
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
