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      AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

      Study of a woman carrying two water-jars

      c.1860-76

      Carbon print | 39.8 x 19.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852833

      A photograph of a drawing now in the Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.521 E). Formerly ascribed to Raphael, the sheet is now generally attributed to an anonymous 17th-century artist copying the figure of the woman carrying to water-jars painted in the lower-right 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 copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

      • 39.8 x 19.8 cm (sheet of paper)

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

      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        pp.233-4, no.521E (Inventario Uffizi. Disegni Esposti I 1986 : Disegni esposti ; v. 1, 1986 / a cura di Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Florence (Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi))

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