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      ADOLPHE ANDRÉ WACQUEZ (B. 1814)

      Drapery studies for the figure of Homer

      published 1858

      Crayon-manner, printed in brown ink | 31.8 x 22.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852484

      A facsimile of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 453). Published in 'Choix de dessins de Raphael qui font partie de la collection Wicar à Lille', Paris 1858. The drapery studies connect with the figure of Homer, standing in the upper left of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.

      • Creator(s)

        Adolphe André Wacquez (b. 1814) (printmaker)

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

      • 31.8 x 22.5 cm (sheet of paper)

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

      • Subject(s)
        • Poets
        • Places
          • Europe
            • Greece
              • Mount Parnassus [Greece]
      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        p.191, no.237r (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

        pp.187-8, no.537v (Brejon de Lavergnée 1997 : Brejon de Lavergnée, B, 1997. Catalogue des dessins Italiens. Collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Paris)

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