LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Black chalk over pounced, dotted outlines
Measurements:
14.76 in. (37.50 cm.) (height) by 10.94 in. (27.80 cm.) (width)
Literature:
J.-D. Passavant, Raphael d’Urbin et son père Giovanni Santi, Paris 1860, II, p. 295;
C. Ruland, The Works of Raphael Santi da Urbino as represented in the Raphael Collection in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, formed by H.R.H. The Prince Consort, 1853-1861, and completed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, London 1876, pp. 29, 77;
J.A. Crowe & G.B. Cavalcaselle, Raphael: His Life and Works with Particular Reference to Recently Discovered Records and Exhaustive Study of Extant Drawings and Pictures, London 1882, II, pp. 310, 489 (as by G.F. Penni);
O. Fischel, Raphaels Zeichnungen: Versuch einer Kritik der bisher veröffentlichen Blätter, Strasbourg 1898, p. 140, no. 344;
idem, ‘Raphael’s Auxiliary Cartoons’, The Burlington Magazine, LXXI, October 1937, p. 168;
F. Hartt, ‘Raphael and Giulio Romano: with Notes on the Raphael School’, The Art Bulletin, vol. XXVI, 1944, p. 87, no. 44, reproduced;
O. Fischel, Raphael, London 1948, p. 387 (as Penni);
K. Oberhuber, ‘Vorzeichnungen zu Raffaels Transfiguration’, Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, NF, IV, 1962, pp. 144-145, no. 20, reproduced;
P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, Italian Drawings in the British Museum, Raphael and his Circle, London 1962, p. 34;
R. Cocke, The Drawings of Raphael, London/New York 1969, p. 41;
L. Dussler, Raphael, A Critical Catalogue of his Pictures, Wall-Paintings and Tapestries, London/New York 1971, p. 54;
K. Oberhuber, Raphaels Zeichnungen, begründet von Oskar Fischel, fortgeführt von Konrad Oberhuber, IX, Entwürfe zu Werken Raffaels und seiner Schule im Vatikan 1511/12 bis 1529, Berlin 1972, p. 70, no. 194;
F. Mancinelli, Primo piano di un capolavaro: La Trasfigurazione di Raffaello, Vatican City, 1979, p. 42;
K. Oberhuber, Raphaels Transfiguration, Stil und Bedeutung, Stuttgart 1982, p. 65, plate 33;
E. Knab, E. Mitsch, and K. Oberhuber, Raphael: die Zeichnungen, Stuttgart/Florence 1983, p. 642, no. 613, reproduced;
P. Joannides, The Drawings of Raphael, with a Complete Catalogue, Oxford 1983, no. 434;
R. Jones and N. Penny, Raphael, New Haven 1983, p. 243;
F. Ames-Lewis, The Draftsman Raphael, New Haven/London 1986, pp. 36-38, 149-150, no. 40, reproduced;
L.D. Ettlinger, Raphael, Oxford, 1987, pp. 220-8;
J.A. Gere, Drawings by Raphael and his Circle from British and North American Collections, New York 1987, pp. 145, 147;
M. Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings, Roman and Neapolitan Schools, London 1994, pp. 22, 194, no. 321 (67), reproduced;
P. De Vecchi, Raphael, Paris 2002, pp. 342-3, no. 318, reproduced
Provenance:
William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire (1672-1729; L.718),; thereafter by descent in the Devonshire Collection (Chatsworth no. 67); Possibly:; Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel (1585-1646),; by inheritance to Alethea Talbot, Countess of Arundel (1585-1654; apparently recorded in the inventory of her estate),; by inheritance to Claude Charlotte, Viscountess Stafford, Tart Hall (subsequently known as Stafford House), by whom sold, following the death of her husband in 1720