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Tapestries

Tapestries

      AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

      Study of two horsemen and a running footsoldier

      c.1853-76

      Albumen print | 31.4 x 24.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853146

      A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1515-16) formerly in the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House, now in the Jean Bonna Collection, Geneva. The drawing is a preparatory study for the cartoon of 'The Conversion of Saul', one from a set of ten tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. A copy of the drawing survives in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem (inv. no.A 59; see RCIN 853147).

      • Creator(s)

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

      • 31.4 x 24.3 cm (sheet of paper)

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

      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        p.224, no.362 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

        pp.277-8, under no.249 (van Tuyll van Serooskerken 2000 : van Tuyll van Serooskerken, C., 2000. The Italian drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Teyler Museum.)

        pp.193-5, no.33 (Jacoby/Sonnabend 2012: edited by J. Jacoby and M. Sonnabend, Frankfurt/Main 2012)

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