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    AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

    A study of three male draped figures

    c.1853-76

    Salted paper print? | 23.4 x 18.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852812

    A photograph of a drawing attributed to Raphael (c.1516) now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.227). The drawing is generally described as a preparatory study for the choristers shown in the upper left foreground of the fresco of 'The Coronation of Charlemagne', painted in the Stanza dell'Incendio in c.1516-17.

    • Creator(s)

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

    • 23.4 x 18.2 cm (sheet of paper)

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

    • Subject(s)
      • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
        • Music
          • Musical forms
            • Choirs (musical)
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      p.228, no.375 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

      p.629, no.508 (Knab/Mitsch/Oberhuber 1983 : Raffaello. I disegni 1983 : I disegni. (Catalogo dei Disegni a cura di Oberhuber, Ferino Pagden, Huber), Florence 1983)

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