Angel Playing a Tambourine
by RAFFAELLO Sanzio, Silverpoint, heightened with white, on grey ground, 189 x 126 mm
This silverpoint study of an apprentice was made for the angels playing music in the Oddi Altarpiece. Drawing figure and motion studies of workshop apprentices (garzoni) became a common practice among Florentine artists from the end of the fifteenth century, and reached Urbino through Perugia’s example.