1977.43: Study for the Madonna of the Long Neck

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1977.43

People

Parmigianino, Italian (Parma, Italy 1503 - 1540 Casalmaggiore, Italy)

Title

Study for the Madonna of the Long Neck

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Parma

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296006

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

11.8 x 6.9 cm (4 5/8 x 2 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: l.l., black ink, stamped: L. 629 (Richard Cosway, 1740-1821)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Richard L. Cosway, London, England (L. 629). E. A. Wrangham, sold [through his sale, Sotheby's, London, July 8, 1964, lot 3, repr.]; to C. R. Rudolf, sold [through his sale, Sotheby's, London, July 4, 1977, lot 83, repr.]; to Fogg Art Museum, 1977.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund

Accession Year

1977

Object Number

1977.43

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Arthur E. Popham, Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1971), vol. I, cat. no. 757, p. 218; vol. III, repr. pl. 349, n.p.
• Mario di Giampaolo, "Quattro studi del Parmigianino per la 'Madonna dal collo lungo'", Prospettiva (April 1983-January 1984), nos. 33-36, pp. 180-182, in text, repr. fig. 8, and under f.n. 11, all p. 182
• David Ekserdjian, "Parmigianino's first idea for the 'Madonna of the long neck'", The Burlington Magazine (July 1984), vol. CXXVI, no. 976, pp. 424-429, under f.n. 5, p. 424
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), pp. 12, 32, 36; repr. fig. 24, p. 38
• Jeanne Goldman, "The Origin of the 'Coquettish' Gesture in Parmigianino's Madonna dal collo lungo", Dialoghi di Storia dell'Arte (October 1995), no. 1, p. 148, repr. fig. 2
• Mary Vaccaro, Parmigianino: The Paintings, Umberto Allemandi & C. (Turin and New York, 2002), p. 185, under cat. no. 36
• David Ekserdjian, Parmigianino, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2006), pp. 196, 199, fig. 211
• Achim Gnann, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, M. Imhof (Petersberg, 2007), cat. no. 914, repr., p. 291

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2017 - 04/20/2017

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