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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

A standing bearded man

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 27.0 x 19.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852759

A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1506-1507) now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.1855,0214.1v). The drawing is a copy from Michelangelo's unfinished statue of St Matthew (1505-06) now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Florence (inv. no.1077).

This drawing is on the verso of a sheet depicting a study for the Borghese Entombment (see RCIN 850260 for a photograph of the recto).
  • Creator(s)

    After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

  • 27.0 x 19.2 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    pp. 10-11, no. 12 v (Italian Drawings [...] British Museum: Raphael and his circle: catalogue, 1962 / Philip Pouncey and J.A. Gere, London)

    pp.212-21, no.71v; fig.93 (Chapman/Plazzotta/Henry 2004 : Chapman, H, Plazzotta, C, Henry, T. Raphael. From Urbino to Rome. London, 2004)

    p;. 165, no. 133v (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)