Workshop of Raphael SANZIO dit RAPHAËL (Urbino 1483 - Rome 1520) Madonna of the Fish Pen, brown ink and brown wash over black pencil lines. Annotated "Raffaello d'Urbino" lower left in pen and brown ink, verso upper center "Raphael durbino". (Two upper corners cut, drawing doubled, some foxing). 22 x 19.5 cm The picture was painted by Raphael (Madrid, Prado Museum) for a Neapolitan patron around 1513-1514. A sanguine study for the group of figures is preserved in the Uffizi (inv.524E) and a modello alternatively attributed to Raphael or his assistant G.F. Penni in a private collection (see : P. Joannides, The Drawings of Raphaël, a Complete Catalogue, Oxford, Éditions Phaidon, 1983, n° 351-352, reproduced, p. 221).