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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

Study of three feet

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 30.2 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852507

A photograph of the verso of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 446). The upper feet connect with the figure often identified as Horace, standing in the lower right corner of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. The lower study is for the right foot of the figure standing to the left of 'Horace', holding a finger on his lips. A photograph of the recto can be found at RCIN 852509.
  • Creator(s)

    After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

  • 30.2 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.191, no.236r (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

    p.188, no.538v (Brejon de Lavergnée 1997 : Brejon de Lavergnée, B, 1997. Catalogue des dessins Italiens. Collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Paris)