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David kills Goliath c.1853-76
Salted paper print | 23.6 x 31.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853594
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A photograph of a preparatory drawing by Raphael in the Albertina, Vienna (inv.no.178) for the fresco David kills Goliath painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the eleventh bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican.
Joannides (1983) considers this drawing the only surviving preparatory sketch by Raphael for the narrative frescoes in the loggia.Provenance
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Salted paper print
Measurements
23.6 x 31.9 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.232, no.390
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