ID 991671
Lot 2 | WORKSHOP OF RAFFAELLO SANZIO, CALLED RAPHAEL (Urbino 1483-1520 Rome)
Estimate value
£ 7 000 – 10 000
The Descent from the Cross
with inscription ‘RAFFAELLO’ (lower centre, on the mount)
black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, watermark circle
36.5 x 28 cm (14 3/8 x 11 in.)
Provenance
Ciccio de Luca, Naples, by 1821 (according to Zani, op. cit., p. 167).
Baron Roger Portalis (1841-1912), Paris (L. 2232); possibly Paris, 13 May 1884, lot 170 (as School of Raphael), or Paris, 14 March 1887, lot 15 (as Perino del Vaga).
Professor Michael Jaffé (1923-1997); by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Pietro Zani, Enciclopedia metodica critico-ragionata delle belle arti, part 2, VIII, Parma 1821, pp. 167-168.
J.-D. Passavant, Raphael d’Urbin et son père Giovanni Santi, Paris, 1860, p. 565.
H. Delaborde, Marc-Antoine Raimondi. Étude historique et critique suivie d’un catalogue raisonné des œuvres du maître, Paris, [1888], p. 104.
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