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

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: "Raphel. Urbin"

Provenance

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

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 10, 1997-July 22, 1997. Mantua, Italy, Palazzo Te, "Roma e lo Stile Classico di Raffaello 1515-1527," Mar. 20-May 30, 1999, cat. 158, p. 229 (ill.), cat. by Laura M. Giles; also Vienna, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, June 23-Sept. 5, 1999.

Publications

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.

Quick Overview

Artist: Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael / Italian, 1483-1520
Date: 1518/20
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white chalk and lead white, partially oxidized, over stylus underdrawing, on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 28.6 × 19.7 cm (11 5/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: chalk
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1993.248.1813

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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.