Konnässörskapets problematik: Original ‐ imitation ‐ förfalskning

Summary in English The problems of connoisseurship — original — imitation ‐ fake The article deals with the problem of connoisseurship as a scholarly discipline with some drawings by or attributed to Raphael in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm as staring point. In the early 19th century a drawing representing St George and the dragon was considered the masterpiece of the Raphael collection, lavishly illustrated in the catalogue (Figs. 1 and 2). Osvald Siren, who was the first in Stockholm to study the Italian drawings in a scholarly way reduced its importance radically and catalogued the drawing as “Surrounding of Giovanni Francesco Penni”. Siren was on the whole very critical and did not accept but one of the Stockholm drawings as an original, The adoration of the Magi (Detail fig. 6). As late as in 1990 Sylvia Ferino Pagden discovered a new original drawing by Raphael in the museum, The Lord appearing to Noa. Siren had obviously studied the drawing but rejecting it, considering a copy by the calligraphic...