Raphael Drawing Discovered

A Raphael previously unknown drawing by Raphael has been discovered amidst a bundle of other drawings brought to Sotheby’s in London for valuation. “It had apparently spent most of the 20th century tucked in a cardboard folder with the other drawings in a drawer in a private house in London. The sketch is now believed to date from 1505, and to be Raphael’s first known drawing in red chalk, made soon after he arrived in Florence and fell under the influence of Leonardo da Vinci.”