Holy Family with St John the Baptist, Zacharias, and Elizabeth in a Landscape
by RAFFAELLO Sanzio, Pen and ink, 353 x 234 mm
This fully realized drawing served as the basis for a friend’s (Domenico Alfani) painting. The figures are crisply delineated in pen and ink, with a graceful but uncomplicated ordering of the group in the pictorial space. The red chalk network of lines across the drawing were the grid for its enlargement to scale and transfer to the panel. Alfani’s painting is now in the Galleria Nazionale in Perugia.