About This Artwork

Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael
Italian, 1483-1520

Upraised Right Hand, with Palm Facing Outward: Study for Saint Peter, 1518/1520

Black chalk, heightened with white chalk and lead white, partially oxidized, over stylus underdrawing, on cream laid paper
286 x 197 mm
Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: "Raphel. Urbin"
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1993.248.1813

McCullagh & Giles 265

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10, 1997-July 22, 1997.

Mantua, Italy, Palazzo Te, "Roma e lo Stile Classico di Raffaello 1515-1527," March 20-May 30, 1999; also travelled to Vienna, Austria, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, June 23-September 5, 1999, cat. 158, p. 229 (ill.), cat. by Laura M. Giles.

Publication History

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 205-07, no. 265 (ill.).

Laura M. Giles, "A Drawing by Raphael for the Sala di Costantino," Master Drawings, vol. 37, no. 2 (Summer 1999), pp. 156-64, p. 157, fig. 2.

Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 91 (ill.).

Jeff Fleischer, "Drawing a Crowd," Chicago Magazine (November 2007), pp. 42 and 44, fig. 5.

Ownership History

Probably William F. E. Gurley (1854-1943), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, as part of the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection (accessioned 1993).