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Find the three tiny babies along the bottom edge, each drawn with a few repeated lines that catch a squirming movement.
This page comes from Raphael’s so-called pink sketchbook, ten small sheets of mothers and children now shared among Lille, the British Museum, a private collection and Cleveland. He drew in metalpoint on paper coated pink, in a book small enough to carry on his journey from Florence to Rome in 1508. The baby’s head follows the Christ Child in Leonardo’s Benois Madonna, though Raphael turned the eyes up and opened the mouth.
metalpoint · Sheet: 12 x 15.3 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · High Renaissance and Mannerism
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- Museum title
- Studies of a Seated Female, Child's Head, and Three Studies of a Baby
- Artist
- Raphael (Italian, 1483–1520)
- Date
- c. 1507–8
- Medium
- metalpoint
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 12 x 15.3 cm (4 3/4 x 6 in.)
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1483–1520
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.