The Prophets Hosea and Jonah

Raphael

c. 1510

The Prophets Hosea and Jonah by Raphael

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over charcoal and blind stylus, heightened with white gouache and squared for transfer with blind stylus and red chalk, on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 26.2 × 20 cm (10 5/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

The Armand Hammer Collection

Accession Number

1991.217.4

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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