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The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X

After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)

The Meeting between Pope Leo the Great and Attila c.1853-76

Albumen print | 38.1 x 56.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852727

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A photograph of a drawing now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.277). The drawing connects with Raphael's fresco of The Meeting between Leo the Great and Attila, but it also differs radically from it. It has been suggested that the drawing may be either a copy from an earlier idea by Raphael for the fresco or a pastiche derived from the latter. A drawing identical in composition is in the British Museum, London (inv. no.1946,0713.594). For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
  • Creator(s)

    After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    Subject(s)
    Pope Leo I (c. 400-61)
    Attila (c. 406-453)
    Saint Peter
    Saint Paul
  • 38.1 x 56.9 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
    Subject(s)
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Biological sciences
        • Anthropology, Nationality & People
          • Huns
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.202 D.11

    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.58, under no.71

    Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte) pp.237-8