A Marble Horse on the Quirinal Hill [recto]

Raphael

c. 1513

A Marble Horse on the Quirinal Hill [recto] by Raphael

Medium

red chalk and pen and brown ink, with stylus underdrawing and traces of leadpoint on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 21.9 x 27.4 cm (8 5/8 x 10 13/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Woodner Collection

Accession Number

1993.51.3.a

About the Artist

Raphael · 14831520

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known simply as Raphael, was born on March 28 or April 6, 1483, in the cultured Duchy of Urbino to the court painter and poet Giovanni Santi and his wife Màgia Ciarla. Orphaned young—his mother died when he was eight and his father when he was eleven—Raphael was raised in Urbino's refined court under the guardianship of his paternal uncle Bartolomeo. He received his ear...

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