A Franciscan friar facing to left, identified as Duns Scotus. Drawing, ca. 1791, after A.R. Mengs after Raphael.

Not identified by Lavater: a Franciscan who wrote on theology, identified in Volpato's key to the figures in "La disputa" as Duns Scotus, though Alexander of Hales would fit equally well: see Raphael invenit, Rome 1985, pp. 34 and 276 ("Ven. Scotus")

"Another head which strikes by its character of greatness, by a happy mixture of calmness and resolution, of intrepidity and gentleness ... a collection of such shaven heads, presented in this attitude and in this light, woud be infinitely interesting to the physiognomical observer"--Lavater, op. cit., p. 279

[London], [1791?]

1 drawing : pencil : sheet 19 x 14.5 cm

Wellcome Collection 730893i

Attributed in the book to "M**** after Raphael": the artist "M****" may be Mengs

After: fresco by Raphael of the triumph of the Eucharist ("La disputa") in the Stanza della Segnatura, the Vatican (among the figures on the right of the Eucharist, the second from the left wearing Franciscan habit)