Studies of a Seated Female, Child's Head, and Three Studies of a Baby
c. 1507–8
- Medium
- metalpoint
- Dimensions
- 12 × 15.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-191664
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-century Italy on a pink prepared surface. The pose of the infant's head in the drawing was based on t…
Provenance
Wade Fund, 1978.37
Registry history
- c. 1507–8 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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