The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
After a work attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
A Triton c.1853-76
Albumen print | 13.6 x 9.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853742
A photograph of a drawing of a triton blowing a conch shell. Not in Ruland (1876); an annotation in a late nineteenth-century hand to the catalogue states that the drawing was then in the Uffizi at Florence. The annotation relates the drawing to a desorative element in the Loggia, designed by Raphael and executed by his workshop (c.1517-19) in the Vatican; it may perhaps be related to a now lost part of the decoration on an exterior pilaster, another element of which is reproduced in a print by Cherubino Alberto (see RCIN 853741 for an impression of this print). Annotated on verso.
A drawing which appears to be of the same composition is in the Musée Bonnat, Bayonne (inv.no.1226).
A drawing which appears to be of the same composition is in the Musée Bonnat, Bayonne (inv.no.1226).
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Creator(s)
After a work attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
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annotation: Pf. 39. 132; Insert R. Cat. / page 232, / 132a Photo of a pen / and ink washed sketch / of the Tritons; - in / the collection of the / Uffizi at Florence; Loggia LXIV 132a [verso, top; centre; bottom, in pencil; all different hands?]
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13.6 x 9.7 cm (sheet of paper)
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Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
Subject(s)
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Decorative motifs
- Grotesques
- Decorative motifs
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Triton (myth)
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Zoology
- Animals
- Shells (animal)
- Conch Shells
- Shells (animal)
- Animals
- Zoology
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.232 B.132a(add)
Bibliographic reference(s)
Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985 pp.27-38
Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 pp.15-135
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