# Study of a Sculpture of a Horse [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RAFFAELLO Sanzio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Red chalk over stylus, 218 x 272 mm ## Commentary Study of a Sculpture of a Horse c. 1516 Red chalk over stylus, 218 x 272 mm Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth An evidence of Raphael's intensive study of antiquities is presented by his drawing of one of the horses from the antique sculptures that still stand prominently on Monte Cavallo, or the Quirinal Hill. The numeral annotations on the drawing in pen and ink, most likely by another hand, demonstrate the process of measuring the objects that are recorded in perspectival drawing. ## Related artworks - [A Group of Nude Men]() - [A Group of Warriors]() - [A nude man advancing to the right \(verso\)]() - [A Soldier before the Cell of St Peter]() - [A Youthful Warrior \(recto\)]() - [Adam and Eve \(ceiling panel\)]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aldobrandini Madonna \(Garvagh Madonna\)]() - [Allegory \(The Knight's Dream\)]() - [Amorini at play \(verso\)]() - [An Angel]() - [Angel \(fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()