The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
Stefano Mulinari (1741-90)
A kneeling woman seen from behind published 1774
Colour aquatint with etching | 23.2 x 14.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852695
A facsimile of a drawing catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the Uffizi, Florence. Lettered with artists' names. Published in S. Mulinari, Disegni originali d'eccellenti pittori esistenti nella reale galleria di Firenze, Florence 1774, plate XI. For a photograph of the drawing see RCIN 852696.
The Uffizi drawing is regarded as a copy from a study by Raphael (c.1511-12) drawn on the recto of a sheet now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.198r), preparatory for the figure of the kneeling woman painted in the left foreground of Raphael's fresco of The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple. A photograph of the Oxford drawing can be found at RCIN 852691.
The Uffizi drawing is regarded as a copy from a study by Raphael (c.1511-12) drawn on the recto of a sheet now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.198r), preparatory for the figure of the kneeling woman painted in the left foreground of Raphael's fresco of The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple. A photograph of the Oxford drawing can be found at RCIN 852691.
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Creator(s)
Stefano Mulinari (1741-90) (printmaker)
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
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23.2 x 14.6 cm (sheet of paper)
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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.200 B.34
Bibliographic reference(s)
Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 p.47, no.I.11 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini)
Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.399, no.F 8.10
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