A study of three male draped figures

A facsimile of a drawing attributed to Raphael (c.1516) now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.227). Dated, and lettered with artists' names, and provenance of the work (Prince de Ligne Collection). 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 the Vatican in c.1516-17.