Vatican Frescoes
ALPHONSE-ALEXANDRE LEROY (1820-1902)
Study for the figure of Christ
publishedAquatint | 48.8 x 37.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852411
A facsimile of a drawing by Raphael (c.1509) currently in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 471). The drawing is thought to be a preparatory study for the figure of Christ in Raphael's Disputa (The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament), painted in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican between 1508 and 1511. Lettered with artists' names in the lower margin. Published in Choix de dessins de Raphael qui font partie de la collection Wicar à Lille, Paris, 1858.
Creator(s)
Alphonse-Alexandre Leroy (1820-1902) (printmaker)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
48.8 x 37.7 cm (sheet of paper)
44.4 x 32.9 cm (platemark)
- Acquired for 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-Disputa
- Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
no.5 (Hattori 2007: Hattori, C, D'après les maîtres: Léonard de Vinci, Raphael, Watteau, Goya, Courbet...La gravure d'interprétation d'Alphonse Leroy (1820-1902) à Omer Bouchery (1882-1962), Lille, 2007)
p.185, no.121r (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
p.186, no.534 (Brejon de Lavergnée 1997 : Brejon de Lavergnée, B, 1997. Catalogue des dessins Italiens. Collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Paris)
