Adoration of the Shepherds study   

The Adoration of the Shepherds with the infant Baptist (1510-1511)

by:   Raphael      category: Drawing   
related artifacts: Disputa | Madonna and Child study 2 | Madonna of Loreto

note:  Parallels have been noted between the figures of this drawing and the Madonna of Loreto/Madonna of the Diadem as well as figures within the Disputà; Joannides (1983) also draws a connection with (Albertina Bd. V. 208v). This was presumably for an unrecorded commission, c. 1509-10, and used by Tommaso Vincidor in 1520 as the basis for a tapestry design (Louvre 4269).