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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

ADOLPHE ANDRÉ WACQUEZ (B. 1814)

Study for a stooping figure and a sketch of the Virgin and Child with St John

published 1858

Crayon-manner | 31.6 x 25.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852563

A facsimile of a drawing by Raphael (c.1509) now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 479). Lettered with artists' names. Numbered at upper right: PL. III. Published in Choix de dessins de Raphael qui font partie de la collection Wicar à Lille, Paris 1858.

The study of the stooping figure shown in profile to right reproduced in this print connects with one of the pupils of Euclid in the right foreground of Raphael's School of Athens, painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican.
  • Creator(s)

    Adolphe André Wacquez (b. 1814) (printmaker)

    After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

  • 31.6 x 25.8 cm (sheet of paper)

    16.2 x 11.8 cm (image)

    28.2 x 22.2 cm (platemark)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Italy
          • Lazio [Italy]
            • Rome [Lazio]
              • Vatican City [Rome]
                • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                  • Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
                    • Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-School of Athens
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • prints
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.190, no.229

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.192 D.110