drawing
- Museum number
- 1872,1012.3268
- Description
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The Calumny of Apelles, after Raphael; a woman, holding a torch and dragging a naked boy by his hair, is standing before an enthroned king with pointed ears, other allegorical figures surrounding in a classical interior
Black chalk
- Production date
- 1498-1520
- Dimensions
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Height: 279 millimetres
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Width: 415 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Copy from a drawing in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. 3876; Massing no. 12.B, pp. 292-3), which it itself thought to be a copy after a lost drawing by Raphael.
Lit: J.-M. Massing, 'La Calomnie d'Apelle', Strasbourg, 1990, no. 12.C.b, p. 308 (with previous literature)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1872,1012.3268
