A fully worked-up study for the cartoon for the tapestry of The Conversion of the Proconsul for the Sistine chapel, Palazzi Vaticani, Rome.

This drawing is Raphael’s study for the cartoon of the Conversion of the Proconsul, also known as the Blinding of Elymas. The episode is described in Acts (13:6-12). The magician Elymas tried to prevent the Roman proconsul Sergius Paulus from hearing the preaching of Paul and Barnabas; Paul struck Elymas blind, and thereby the proconsul was converted.