A Triton c.1853-76
Albumen print | 13.6 x 9.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853742
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A photograph of a drawing of a triton blowing a conch shell. Not in Ruland (1876); an annotation in a late nineteenth-century hand to the catalogue states that the drawing was then in the Uffizi at Florence. The annotation relates the drawing to a desorative element in the Loggia, designed by Raphael and executed by his workshop (c.1517-19) in the Vatican; it may perhaps be related to a now lost part of the decoration on an exterior pilaster, another element of which is reproduced in a print by Cherubino Alberto (see RCIN 853741 for an impression of this print). Annotated on verso.
A drawing which appears to be of the same composition is in the Musée Bonnat, Bayonne (inv.no.1226).Provenance
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
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Albumen print
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13.6 x 9.7 cm (sheet of paper)
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annotation: Pf. 39. 132; Insert R. Cat. / page 232, / 132a Photo of a pen / and ink washed sketch / of the Tritons; - in / the collection of the / Uffizi at Florence; Loggia LXIV 132a [verso, top; centre; bottom, in pencil; all different hands?]
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Ruland : Ruland, C., 1876. The Works of Raphael Santi da Urbino as represented in the Raphael Collection in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, formed by the Prince Consort, 1853-1861 and completed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Weimar – Ruland p.232 B.132a(add)Bibliographic reference(s)
Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985 pp.27-38
Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 pp.15-135