The Head of a Horse (Cartoon Fragment for the Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, Stanza di Eliodoro)
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Artwork Details
- Title: The Head of a Horse (Cartoon Fragment for the Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, Stanza di Eliodoro)
- Artist: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)
- Date: ca. 1512
- Medium: Charcoal, black chalk, outlines pricked for transfer of the design, on light brown discolored paper (on six sheets glued with overlapping seams, original paper support); the cropping of the right border at top and bottom possibly conforms to the shape of a giornata; heavily restored, varnished, and numerous losses made up
- Dimensions: 26 7/8 × 21 in. (68.2 × 53.3 cm)
Framed: 37 13/16 in. × 30 13/16 in. × 2 3/8 in. (96 × 78.2 × 6 cm) - Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Presented by a Body of Subscribers in 1846 (WA1846.197)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints