The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
Léon Gaucherel (1816-86)
Study for the figure of Sappho published 1870
Etching with some roulette work | 17.6 x 24.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852502
A print reproducing a study by Raphael for the figure of Sappho, depicted to the left of the fictive moulding of the window frame in the fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. Lettered with production details, title and provenance of the work. Published in Album de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1870.
The figure reproduced here is a detail taken from a study sheet by Raphael now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.Pp,1.73). A photograph of it can be found at RCIN 852501.
The figure reproduced here is a detail taken from a study sheet by Raphael now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.Pp,1.73). A photograph of it can be found at RCIN 852501.
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Creator(s)
Léon Gaucherel (1816-86) (etcher)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Beillet : 35 Quai de la Tornelle, Paris (printer)
Subject(s)
Sappho -
17.6 x 24.3 cm (sheet of paper)
16.3 x 22.8 cm (platemark)
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Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
Subject(s)
- People
- Poets
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Mount Parnassus [Greece]
- Greece
- Europe
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.187 C.I.87
Bibliographic reference(s)
Catalogue of the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. v. P. Pouncey and J.A.Gere, Raphael and His Circle (1962); p.37, no.44
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.193, no.243
Jacoby/Sonnabend 2012: edited by J. Jacoby and M. Sonnabend, Frankfurt/Main 2012 pp.149-52, no.21
Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.385, no.F 3.15
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