- Museum number
- Pp,1.74
- Description
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A man standing slightly to left, his hands held out and a drapery study
Pen and brown ink
Verso: Drapery of 'Horace' and three hands
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1511 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 340 millimetres
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Width: 240 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The recto figure corresponds with one of those on the r of the lost 2nd design for the 'Parnassus' fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican, of which there is a copy in Oxford (Ashmolean 639). The pose is similar in reverse to a figure to the l of the altar in the 'Disputa del Sacramento'. The verso is a drapery study for the figure on the extreme right of the fresco of 'Parnaseus', the so-called 'Horace'. The two lower of the three hands on the verso are also for this figure, while the other is for the right hand of the figure whose head is to the right of a tree on the same side of the fresco.
Lit.: P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, 'Italian Drawings in the BM, Raphael and His Circle', London, 1962, I, no. 29, II, pl. 34 & 35 (with previous literature); R.W. Scheller, 'The Case of the Stolen Raphael Drawings', " Master Drawings", 11, Summer 1973, no. 17, p. 128; J.A. Gere and N.Turner in exh. cat. BM, 'Drawings by Raphael', 1983, no. 103; P. Joannides, 'The Drawings of Raphael', Oxford, 1983, no. 235;
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1962/3 Nov-Sep, BM, 'Raphael and his Circle' (P+G)
1977 May-Jun, Hermitage, 'Italian Renaissance', no. 51
1977 Jul-Aug, Pushkin, Moscow, 'Italian Renaissance', no. 51
1980, Adelaide and Melbourne, no. 52
1983, BM, 'Drawings by Raphael', no. 103
2020 3 Mar-30 Aug, Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, Raphael
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Acquisition notes
- One of the drawings stolen from Wicar and sold to Ottley at the end of the 1790s, see Scheller 1973.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Pp,1.74
