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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

Head of a long-haired young man [from 'The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple']

c.1800-1876

Lithograph | RCIN 852677

A lithograph reproducing (in reverse) the head and shoulders of the man brandishing a sword while rushing forward at the side of the soldier on horseback in Raphael's fresco of 'The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple', painted in 1511-12 in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. Lettered with artists' names along lower margin.
  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)