Lot 3
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School of Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Urbino 1483-1520 Rome)
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School of Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Urbino 1483-1520 Rome)

The Disputà

Details
School of Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Urbino 1483-1520 Rome)
The Disputà
with inscription 'Raphael S Urbino'
pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on brown paper
9½ x 16¼ in. (238 x 415 mm.)
Provenance
Paul-Louis Randon de Boisset; Paris, 27 February 1777, lot 278 (300 livres), according to Mireur.
Comte de Saint-Morys; Paris, 1 February 1786 (according to to J.-B.-P. Lebrun).
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun; Paris, 11-30 March 1791 (1,000 livres), according to Mireur.
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun; Paris, 29 October - 7 November 1806.
François Flameng; Paris, 26-7 May 1919, lot 35 (6,700 francs).
Anon. sale; Geneva, 13 June 1960.
Literature
H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d'art faites en France et à l'Etranger pendant les XVIIIme et XIXme siècles, Paris, 1911, VI, pp. 449-50.
B. Peronnet, Dessins Italiens du Musée Condé à Chantilly, II. Raphaël et son cercle, exhib. cat., Chantilly, Musée Condé, 1997, under no. 6.
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Lot Essay

This is a version of an autograph drawing now at the Musée Condé in Chantilly and formerly in Crozat's and Mariette's collections. The Chantilly drawing is a study for the lower part of the Disputà painted by Raphael circa 1509 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. The study for the upper section of the fresco is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (P. Joannides, The Drawings of Raphael, Oxford, 1983, no. 198). Another drawing for the lower part of the fresco is at Windsor Castle (P. Joannides, op. cit., no. 200) and further copies are in the Louvre (D. Cordellier and D. Py, Raphael, son atelier, ses copistes, Paris, 1992, nos. 94 (from Jabach's collection) and 95 (by Andrea del Sarto)). In a letter dated 17 January 2003 Paul Joannides suggests that the present drawing could be by one of Raphael's Bolognese followers.
The present drawing is probably the one mentioned in Randon de Boisset's sale in 1777, in the lot following the Chantilly drawing (lot 277) also included in that sale. It reappears in 1806, in Lebrun's sale with the added information that it was in Saint-Morys' sale in 1786.

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