Disputation of the Holy Sacrament.

Drawing, pencil and black chalk, 44,7 x 57,3 cm, signed and dated with brown ink in lower margin "J.A.J. 1767" (vert. folding line at centre, some brown spots, underlaid).

Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout.

A study sheet with a fragment copied from Raphael's famous stanze della Segnatura in the Vatican. Jean-Antoine Julien, known as Julien de Parme (1736-1799) was a Swiss-born painter who studied painting at Craveggia (Piemonte). Between 1760 and 1771 he stayed in Rome to study ancient and Renaissance art as the final part of his artistic education. This drawing sheet represents this formative phase of the young artist's career. In France he would later become a leading neoclassicist painter, whose successful career was only overshadowed by that of David. His paintings and drawings are now part of the collections of the Louvre, the Albertina, the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans.