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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

A woman carrying two water-jars

c.1853-76

Salted paper print? | RCIN 852834

A photograph of a drawing now in the Sammlung der Kunstakademie, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (inv. no.KA (KP) 14). The drawing corresponds with Raphael's figure of the woman carrying two water-jars painted in the lower right foreground of the fresco of 'The Fire in the Borgo', executed in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican in c.1514. A similar drawing (although in reverse) is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.284). For a photograph of the Ashmolean sheet, see RCIN 852835.
  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)