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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    Studies for figures in the 'Disputa'

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | RCIN 852448

    A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1508-09) currently in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 472). The studies connect with the figures of Abraham and St Paul, seated on clouds at the left hand of Jesus in the Disputa (The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament), painted by Raphael in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican between 1508 and 1511.
    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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