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Study for the figure of Virgil c.1853-76
Albumen print | 32.1 x 21.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852496
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A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.inv. no.WA1846.182v). The drapery study is for the figure of Virgil, standing a little behind Homer to the left of the central group in Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
Provenance
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Medium and techniques
Albumen print
Measurements
32.1 x 21.7 cm (sheet of paper)
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Bibliographic reference(s)
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.192, no.238r