Studies of a Seated Female, Child's Head, and Three Studies of a Baby
Raphael (Italian, 1483–1520)
c. 1507–8
Medium
metalpoint
Dimensions
{"sheet":{"height":0.12,"width":0.153}}
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
1978.37
Tags
male
About this artwork
This drawing is from Raphael’s "pink sketchbook," comprised of ten sheets of roughly equal size that each portray variations of a mother and child. Today, six of the drawings at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille; two are at the British Museum; one is in a private collection; and one is in Cleveland. The small format of the sheets would have enabled the artist to carry the notebook as he traveled from Florence to Rome in 1508. Raphael used metalpoint, a technique popular in 15th- and early 16th-ce...