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      AFTER A WORK ATTRIBUTED TO RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

      An elderly man being carried by a robust youth

      c.1860-76

      Carbon print | 31.2 x 17.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852837

      A photograph of a drawing attributed to Raphael (c.1514) now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.4881). The drawing is a study for the so-called 'Aeneas/Anchises group' painted in the lower left foreground of Raphael's fresco of 'The Fire in the Borgo', executed in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican in c.1514.

      • Creator(s)

        After a work attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

      • 31.2 x 17.0 cm (sheet of paper)

      • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)

      • Subject(s)
        • Places
          • Asia
            • Asia Minor
              • Troy
      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        p.226, no.367 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

        p.344 (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))

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