# Studies of a Seated Female, Child's Head, and Three Studies of a Baby, in Renaissance

Raphael drew this in about 1507–8, aged about 24. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> This drawing is from Raphael’s "pink sketchbook," comprised of ten sheets of roughly equal size that each portray variations of a mother and child. Today, six of the drawings at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille; two are at the British Museum; one is in a private collection; and one is in Cleveland.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1507–8
- Medium: metalpoint
- Dimensions: Sheet: 12 x 15.3 cm (4 3/4 x 6 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.37
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Raphael](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/raphael), Italian, 1483–1520

Raphael trained in Urbino and in Perugino’s orbit, absorbed the lessons of Leonardo and Michelangelo in Florence from 1504, and in 1508 was called to Rome by Pope Julius II.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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