Male Nude Figures and an Angel (Composition sketches for the Resurrection oin the Chigi Chapel, Santa Maria della Pace) (recto); A Geometrical Study (verso)

ca. 1511-14
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 899
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Male Nude Figures and an Angel (Composition sketches for the Resurrection oin the Chigi Chapel, Santa Maria della Pace) (recto); A Geometrical Study (verso)
  • Artist: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)
  • Date: ca. 1511-14
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink,over traces of stylus underdrawing; faint circle bleeding through from the verso (recto); pen and brown ink over geometric indications in compass (verso) on laid paper
  • Dimensions: 8 3/16 × 10 5/16 in. (20.8 × 26.2 cm)
    Framed: 17 11/16 in. × 23 3/4 in. × 1 5/16 in. (45 × 60.4 × 3.3 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Presented by a Body of Subscribers in 1846 (WA1846.199)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints