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Studies

Studies

AFTER A WORK PREVIOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

A seated woman

c.1853-1876

Albumen print | 23.9 x 16.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854402

A photograph of a drawing depicting a seated woman now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.228).

This drawing was previously in Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection, where it was attributed to Raphael. Parker in the catalogue of the Italian drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (see Bibliographic References) affirms: "There is no resemblance whatever to Raphael or his school. The drawing is presumably Florentine or Roman of the second half of the 16th century".
  • Creator(s)

    After a work previously attributed to Raphael (1483-1520) (draughtsman)

  • 23.9 x 16.8 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-1876)

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.327 B.LIII.1