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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

Studies for a kneeling woman

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 38.6 x 26.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852691

A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1511-12) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.198r). The studies connect with the figure of the kneeling woman painted in the left foreground of Raphael's fresco of The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, executed in 1511-12 in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. For a photograph of the fresco see RCIN 852670.

The drawing was engraved in facsimile by F.C. Lewis for Ottley's School of Italian Design, 1823. An impression can be found at RCIN 852692.
  • Creator(s)

    After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

  • 38.6 x 26.0 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.216, no.333r

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.200 B.30