Attributed to François-André Vincent (Paris 1746-1816)
Attributed to François-André Vincent (Paris 1746-1816)

The Head of Heliodorus, after Raphael

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Attributed to François-André Vincent (Paris 1746-1816)
The Head of Heliodorus, after Raphael
numbered '419'
red chalk, watermark of grapes and proprietary
15½ x 201/8 in. (395 x 514 mm.)
Provenance
An unidentified German Academy Armorial Stamp.
C.G. Matthes (L. 2871).

Lot Essay

Comparable to a group of copies by Vincent after Raphael's frescoes in the Stanze in the Vatican. One of these drawings from the Horvitz collection is reproduced in A.L. Clark, Mastery and Elegance, two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge and elsewhere, 1998, p. 45, fig. 31.

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