Raphael was especially esteemed for his Madonna and Child compositions
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
Anatomy study c.1800-1876
Lithograph | 24.0 x 17.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850804
A lithographic facsimile of a drawing by Raphael (c.1507) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA 1855.91v). Ruland (1876) suggested that the drawing may be a study for the figure of the Virgin in Raphael’s so-called La Belle Jardinière (1508) now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.602; see RCIN 850796 for a photograph of it). For photographs of both sides of the sheet, see RCINs 850701 and 850703.
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Creator(s)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
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24.0 x 17.6 cm (sheet of paper)
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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)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Medical sciences
- Anatomy
- Skeleton
- Anatomy
- Medical sciences
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.65 A.XIX.9
Bibliographic reference(s)
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford no. 122v
Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 pp. 157-263, no. 35
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