
Raphael
(1483−1520)
Head of an Angel
c. 1519–20
Black chalk, heightened with white
308 × 254 mm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 1943
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Literature
Charles Ruland, The Works of Raphael Santi da Urbino as Represented in the Raphael Collection in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, London 1876, p. 335, no. XXIV (attributed to Raphael)
Joseph Schönbrunner and Joseph Meder, Handzeichnungen Alter Meister aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen, 12 vols., Vienna 1895–1908, no. 748 (in the manner of Sodoma)
Edith Hoffmann, Miniatúrák és olasz rajzok, exhibition and check-list, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 1930, no. 37 (sixteenth-century Roman Artist)
Iván Fenyő, Középitáliai rajzok: Bologna, Firenze, Róma, exhibition catalogue, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 1963, no. 24 (attributed to Raphael)
Paul Joannides, The Drawings of Raphael, with a Complete Catalogue, Oxford 1983, no. 451
Eckhart Knab, Erwin Mitsch, and Konrad Oberhuber, Raphael: Die Zeichnungen, Stuttgart 1983, no. 596
Catherine Monbeig-Goguel, ‘The Drawings of Raphael, with a Complete Catalogue by Paul Joannides and Raphael: Die Zeichnungen by Erwin Knab et al.’, The Burlington Magazine 126 (1984), p. 439, note 4 (doubts the attribution to Raphael)
Rolf Quedneau, Die Sala di Costantino im Vatikanischen Palast: Zur Dekoration der beiden Medici-Päpste Leo X und Clemens VII, Hildesheim and New York 1979, p. 248, note 8
Dominique Cordellier and Bernadette Py, Inventaire Général des Dessins Italiens V: Raphaël, son Atelier, ses Copistes, Paris 1992, under no. 952
Dominique Cordellier and Bernadette Py, Raffaello e i Suoi: Disegni di Raffaello e della Sua Cerchia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Villa Medici 1992, under no. 132
Loránd Zentai, Sixteenth-Century Central Italian Drawings: An Exhibition from the Museum’s Collection, exhibition catalogue, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 1998, no. 11 (attributed to Raphael)
Mauro Natale, Rafael: Retrato de un joven, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza 2005–6, no. 12
Tom Henry and Paul Joannides: Late Raphael, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, Museo del Prado and Paris, Musee du Louvre 2012–13, under nos. 25–28 (attributed to Giulio Romano