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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

Sketch for a figure in the 'Disputa', other studies and fragment of a sonnet

c.1853-76

Albumen print | RCIN 852452

A photograph of the recto of a drawing by Raphael (c.1508-09) currently in the Musée Fabre, Montpellier (inv. no.3184r). The study connects with the figure leaning over a marble balustrade in the lower right corner of the Disputa (The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament), painted by Raphael in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican between 1508 and 1511. A photograph of the verso (featuring further studies for this figure) can be found at RCIN 852454.
  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)