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Drawn with brown ink and shaded with tan washes on cream-white paper, two bearded men wearing robes, with a smaller, nude, winged boy between them, fill this vertical drawing. At the center top of the paper, the angel faces us, gazing down to our left with open mouth and eyebrows drawn together. He has curly hair and lifts his muscular right arm, on our left, with his index finger pointed upward. Crosshatched lines define his body, and quick, curved lines shade his outstretched wings. To our right, one man stands with his body facing the center of the sheet but he turns his head to look up off the top right corner. He has curling hair, a wide mustache, and perhaps a goatee, though his chin is partially hidden by a dark spot on the paper. He has broad shoulders, a thick neck, large hands, and a hint of a muscular leg under his flowing, voluminous robes. He holds a flat, oblong object, possibly a stone tablet, perched on his slightly bent left knee. Seated to our left, the other man faces and looks at us. He also grasps a flat, tablet-like object but holds it up, braced on his right thigh, to our left, and points to it with his other hand. This man also is solidly built and swathed in robes, with a hood over his curly hair. He leans forward, knees apart, and stares out with his brows deeply furrowed. His downturned mouth is set in a bushy, curly beard. Near the bottom of the picture, the bare feet of the two men emerge from the folds of their robes. Touches of white washes on the folds of the robes create a sense of light coming from above and to our right, and charcoal lines reinforce the shadows. A grid is lightly drawn in red chalk lines over the composition. A black stamp in the lower left has the letters “E.C” and another at the center reads, “H de T. STAT.”

Raphael

The Prophets Hosea and Jonah, c. 1510

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over charcoal and blind stylus, heightened with white gouache and squared for transfer with blind stylus and red chalk, on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 26.2 x 20 cm (10 5/16 x 7 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

The Armand Hammer Collection

Accession Number

1991.217.4

Artists / Makers

Raphael (artist) Marchigian, 1483 - 1520

Image Use

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Inscription

none

Marks and Labels

stamped in black ink: Émile Calando collection (Lugt 837); stamped in black ink: Baron Henri de Triqueti collection (Lugt 1304); H. C. Jennings (Lugt 2771)

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, Sr., London; by inheritance to Jonathan Richardson, Jr., London (Lugt 2170); P.J. Mariette, Paris (Lugt 2097); H. C. Jennings, London, (Lugt 2771); Richard Payne Knight, London (Lugt 1577); Baron Henri de Triqueti, Paris (Lugt 1304); Émile Calando [1840 - 1898], Paris, (Lugt 837); (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11-12 December 1899, no. 205); Major S. V. Christie-Miller, Salisbury; (P&D Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); sold to Armand Hammer, 1971; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Calando, Émile Louis Dominique
Christie-Miller, S.V., Major
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Drouot, Hôtel
Hammer Foundation, Armand, The
Jennings, Henry Constantine
Knight, Richard Payne
Mariette, Pierre-Jean
Richardson, Jr., Jonathan
Richardson, Sr., Jonathan
Triqueti, Henri-Joseph-François, baron de

Exhibition History

1971: Exhibited extensively with the Armand Hammer collection from 1971-1987, beginning with Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

1974: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974, no. 67.

1976: Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, no. 21.

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 36.

1987: Drawings by Raphael and his Circle, from British and North American Collections, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1987, no. 25.

1987: Master Drawings from The Armand Hammer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1987, no. 5 (entry by Konrad Oberhuber).

2002: Italian Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002-2003, no cat.

2020: Raphael and His Circle: Prints and Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2020, no cat.

Bibliography

1754: Richardson, Jonathan. An Account of the Statues, Bas-Reliefs, Drawings and Pictures in Italy, France, etc., with Remarks by Mr. Richardson, Sen. and Jun. 2nd ed., London, 1754, p. 104.

1798: Metz, Conrad. Imitations of Ancient and Modern Drawings, London, 1798, plate 44 (no text).

1860: J.D. Passavant, Raphaël d'Urbin, Paris, 1860, vol. 2, p. 142.

1864: Gruyer, F.A. Raphael et l'antiquité, Paris, 1846, vol. 1, p. 379, n. 1.

1876: C. Ruland, The Works of Raphael Santi da Urbino as Represented in the Raphael Collection in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, London, 1876, p. 271.

1882: Crowe, J.A. and G.B. Cavalcaselle. Raphael, His Life and Works. 2 vols. London, 1882-1885: 2:216, note.

1903: Lafenestre, G.E. and E. Richtenberger. Rome, le Vatican -- les églises, Paris, 1903: p. 263.

1912: Fischel, Oskar. "Some Lost Drawings by or near Raphael," The Burlington Magazine 20 (1912): 299, plate II, fig. 12.

1921: Lugt, Frits. Les marques de collections. Amsterdam, 1921: 150.

1971: Dussler, Luitpold. Raphael, a Critical Catalogue of His Pictures, Wall-Paintings and Tapestries, London, 1971, p. 94.

1972: White, Christopher, "The Armand Hammer Collection: Drawings," Apollo, vol. 95 (June 1972), p. 457, fig. 1.

1981: Feinblatt, Ebria. "Raphael's Influence Continued" Drawing, vol. 3, no. 4 (1981), p. 74, fig. 3.

1983: Joannides, Paul. The Drawings of Raphael, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1983, pp. 21, 207, no. 297, repr.

1983: Knab, Eckhart, Erwin Mitsch and Konrad Oberhuber, Raphael, Die Zeichnungen, Stuttgart, 1983, p. 592-593, no. 390, repr. Also published in an Italian edition (same authors). Raphael, I disegni. Florence, 1984: 617, no. 390.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 662, no. 1047, color repro.

1985: Albuquerque Museum Foundation Annual Report 1985, repr. on cover.

1992: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, D.C., 1992: 317, repro.

1995: Sale catalogue. Christie's, London, 4 July 1995, under no. 127.

1996: Montagu, Jennifer. Gold, Silver and Bronze, Metal Sculpture of the Roman Baroque. Princeton, 1996: 42, 220 note 69, fig. 66.

2000: Robison, Andrew. "Drawings in American Museums." Master Drawings 38 (Autumn 2000): 298, fig. 4.

2010: Karpinski, Caroline. "Archimedes Salutes Bramante in a Draft for the School of Athens." artibus et historiae no. 61 (XXXI), 2010: 115, 119, 124, 127 note 6, reprod. 118, fig. 3

2013: Jacoby, Joachim W., and Sonnabend, Martin. Raphael: Drawings. Exh. cat. Städel Museum, Munich, 2012: 209-210, fig. 92.

2015: Schenck, Kimberly. "Technical Observation of Three Drawings by Raphael from the National Gallery of Art." In Joachim Jacoby, ed. Raffael als Zeichner: die Beiträge des Frankfurter Kolloquiums = Raphael as draughtsman. Frankfurt am Main, 2015: 51-55, fig. 5.