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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

      ANNE CLAUDE PHILIPPE, COMTE DE CAYLUS (1692-1765)

      A group of draped figures in a variety of poses

      c.1712-55

      Etching | 32.0 x 44.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852432

      A facsimile of a drawing currently in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.3884 v) thought to be a copy of a compositional study by Raphael (now lost), preparatory for the lower left-hand group in the Disputa (The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament) painted in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican between 1508 and 1511.

      The facsimile, which according to Ruland (1876) was made by Count Caylus, ascribes the drawing to Raphael. A photograph of the drawing can be found at RCIN 852437.

      • Creator(s)

        Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de Caylus (1692-1765) (printmaker)

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

      • 32.0 x 44.0 cm (sheet of paper)

      • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

      • Subject(s)
        • Places
          • Europe
            • Italy
              • Lazio [Italy]
                • Rome [Lazio]
                  • Vatican City [Rome]
                    • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                      • Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
                        • Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-Disputa
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • prints
      • 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.29, under no.33

        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) p.109, no.96

        Other number(s)

        Ruland p.183 B.106

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