Description
The Prophets David and Daniel brings two robed figures into the distinct shape of an octagonal sheet. One stands at the left while the other sits beside an open book, with raised and bending arms connecting their separate actions. Warm red and pink tones give the bodies weight without filling the surrounding field, allowing the poses to remain especially clear.
Made around 1601–2, the drawing is by Peter Paul Rubens after Raphael. Red chalk, washes and white highlights give the copied figures a richly worked surface, preserving both the originating model and Rubens’s response to it. The contrast between standing and seated forms provides the composition’s structure, while the book and gestures give the pairing a shared intellectual and religious character rather than the stillness of two unrelated portraits.
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