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A caryatid leaning on an oar which she is holding with both hands c.1660-93
Etching | 43.0 x 21.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852782
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A print reproducing one of the caryatids designed by Raphael and painted on the dado below the fresco of The Meeting between Leo the Great and Attila in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. This caryatid is generally interpreted as representing Marine. Lettered with artists' names at lower left. Numbered at tope left: 8. Published in Diverses Figures Hieroglyphiques Peinte par Raphael d'Urbin dans une des salles du Vatican à Rome, a series of 13 plates reproducing figures painted on the dado in the Stanza di Eliodoro.
Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Measurements
43.0 x 21.6 cm (sheet of paper)
41.4 x 19.3 cm (platemark)
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Bibliographic reference(s)
Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 pp.52-3, VI.8 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò)
Alternative title(s)
LA MARINE