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Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Urbino 1483-1520 Rome)

Saint Benedict receiving Maurus and Placidus

Price realised USD 1,202,500
Estimate
USD 1,000,000 – USD 1,500,000
Closed: 30 Jan 2013
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Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Urbino 1483-1520 Rome)

Saint Benedict receiving Maurus and Placidus

Price realised USD 1,202,500
Closed: 30 Jan 2013
Price realised USD 1,202,500
Closed: 30 Jan 2013
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Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Urbino 1483-1520 Rome)
Saint Benedict receiving Maurus and Placidus
black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, squared in black chalk, partially indented with stylus, an added section of paper at the left of the sheet
14½ x 16¼ in. (36.8 x 41.3 cm.)
Provenance
From a collection formed in Tuscany in the 18th century.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 April 1988, lot 27, as 'Attributed to Raphael'.
Private collection, New York; on loan to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Literature
G.V.G. Shepherd, A monument to Pope Pius II: Pinturicchio and Raphael in the Piccolomini Library in Siena 1494-1508, Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1993.
W. Andersen, 'A Wonderful Early Drawing by Raphael', Drawing, XVI, no. 3, 1994, pp. 49-52, illustrated.
T. Clifford and J. Dick, Raphael: The Pursuit of Perfection, exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh, 1994, under no. 30, fig. 53.
L. Kanter in G. Testa ed., La Cappella Nova, Milan, 1996, p. 95, note 2.
H. Chapman, T. Henry and C. Plazzotta, Raphael: From Urbino to Rome, exhibition catalogue, London, 2004, p. 62, note 61.
T. Henry, 'Raphael and Siena', Apollo, October 2004, pp. 52-53, illustrated fig. 3.
T. Henry, 'Nuove prospettive per Raffaello prima di Roma', Accademia Raffaello. Atti e Studi, 1, 2006, pp. 89-110.

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