Studies of a male head, of hands and feet

A photograph of a drawing currently in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.262). The sheet is a compilation of drawings copied from originals by Raphael, all of which relate to his frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. The hands are copied from a study sheet now in the British Museum, London (inv. no. Pp,1.74v), while the feet are taken from a drawing currently in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 446). The two originals by Raphael are preparatory for his fresco of Parnassus (c.1510-11). The head at lower right is copied from the verso of a sheet in Musée Fabre, Montpellier (inv. no.3184v), relate to the figure leaning over a marble balustrade in the lower right corner of the Disputa (c.1508-09). For photographs of the originals, see RCINs 852454, 852507 and 852511. Another photograph of the Albertina drawing can be found at RCIN 852512.