A facsimile etching of a drawing formerly attributed to Raphael now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.4033). Lettered with Raphael's name at lower left. Rest of lettering at lower right cut off.

The etching was made by Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys after the drawing, which was then in his possession. Vialart de Saint-Morys was a collector of Old Master drawings and amateur printmaker who published two groups of prints after drawings in his own collection, the first group dated 1780-89 and the second 1792-94. Cordellier/Py (1992) mention a reproductive print of the drawing by Pierre Larrieu, included in Recueil Saint-Morys, fol.70. See Bibliographic References.

The drawing reproduced in this print is a copy after the left foreground group from Raphael's School of Athens, painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican.