The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
Adolphe André Wacquez (b. 1814)
Drapery studies for the figure of Homer published 1858
Crayon-manner, printed in brown ink | 31.8 x 22.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852484
A facsimile of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 453). Published in Choix de dessins de Raphael qui font partie de la collection Wicar à Lille, Paris 1858.
The drapery studies connect with the figure of Homer, standing in the upper left of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
The drapery studies connect with the figure of Homer, standing in the upper left of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
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Creator(s)
Adolphe André Wacquez (b. 1814) (printmaker)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Homer (active 850 BC?) -
31.8 x 22.5 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
Subject(s)
- People
- Poets
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Mount Parnassus [Greece]
- Greece
- Europe
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.186 C.I.69
Bibliographic reference(s)
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.191, no.237r
Brejon de Lavergnée 1997 : Brejon de Lavergnée, B, 1997. Catalogue des dessins Italiens. Collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Paris pp.187-8, no.537v
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