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      AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

      Head of a young man

      c.1853-76

      Albumen print | 27.2 x 34.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852697

      A photograph of a cartoon fragment by Raphael (c.1512) now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.3852). The fragment is from the original cartoon for the fresco of 'The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple', painted in 1511-12 in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican, and corresponds with the head of the foremost heavenly figure who runs alongside the armed rider in the centre-right foreground of the fresco.

      • Creator(s)

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

      • 27.2 x 34.2 cm (sheet of paper)

      • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

      • Subject(s)
        • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
          • Art
            • Drawings
              • Cartoons
      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        p.217, no.334 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

        p.230, no.314 (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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