Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Standing Prophet and Other Studies (a&b)

Artist: Raphael (copy after) (Italian, 1483-1520)

Medium: red chalk on paper

Dimensions: 12 5/8 in. x 8 7/16 in. (32 cm. x 21.4 cm.)

Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III

Accession Number: 1811.48.a.&.b

• armorial shield crowned, initials CMB above
  Type: watermark
  Location:
  Materials:

• James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
• Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest

• Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
  • Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
  • Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
  • University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
  • Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)

Oberhuber was the first to recognize these sketches as copies of the Vatican Loggia frescoes designed by Raphael and executed by his studio; specific subjects for two of the figures are Noah Building the Ark and Moses and the Burning Bush.

Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).