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      AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

      Study of three standing men

      c.1860-76

      Carbon print | 39.1 x 27.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852848

      A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1514) now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.17575). The drawing is a preparatory study for figures in the fresco of 'The Victory at Ostia', painted in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican.

      • Creator(s)

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

      • 39.1 x 27.5 cm (sheet of paper)

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

      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        p.226, no.371 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

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