1969.132: Standing Male Nude, Saint John the Evangelist with a Bishop or Abbot Saint; verso: Seated Male Nude

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1969.132

People

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

Title

Standing Male Nude, Saint John the Evangelist with a Bishop or Abbot Saint; verso: Seated Male Nude

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Old title: Study of a Male Nude and Two Saints; verso: Sketch of a Nude Man Seated

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1522-1523

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Parma

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296163

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash, and red chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: red chalk

Dimensions

28.5 x 20 cm (11 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Three joined crosses
• inscription: verso, l.r. bottom edge, graphite: 239

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Austin A. Mitchell, New York, NY, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Austin A. Mitchell

Accession Year

1969

Object Number

1969.132

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Sydney J. Freedberg, "On the Parmigianino Drawing in the Mitchell Bequest", Fogg Art Museum Newsletter, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, May 1970), vol. 7, no. 4, n.p.; repr. (recto), same page
• Arthur E. Popham, Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1971), vol. I: cat. no. 823, p. 263; under cat. no. 426, p. 148; vol. III: repr. ...
• Drawings and Prints of the First Maniera 1515-1535, exh. cat., Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art (Providence, RI, 1973), cat. no. 33, repr. (recto and verso)
• Sydney J. Freedberg, Review of A.E. Popham, "Catalogue of Drawings by Parmigianino" and "Disegni di Girolamo Bedoli...", The Art Bulletin (March 1973), 55 no. 1, p. 150
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 13, n.p., repr., n.p., pl. 13 (recto) and fig. 16 (verso)
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 30, n.p., and pp. 32 and 36; repr. color (recto), n.p.
• Dr. Carmen Bambach and Hugo Chapman, Correggio and Parmigianino: Master Draughtsmen of the Renaissance, exh. cat., British Museum Press (London, England, 2000), cat. no. 45, p. 87, and p. 19; repr. recto and verso color, p. 87
• Achim Gnann, Review of "Correggio and Parmigianino: Master Draughtsmen of the Renaissance", The Burlington Magazine (April 2001), vol. CXLIII, no. 1177, pp. 231-234, no. 45, p. 233
• Achim Gnann, Review of Correggio and Parmigianino, London and New York, The Burlington Magazine (April 2001), 143, no. 1177, p. 233
• Mary Vaccaro, Review of "Correggio and Parmigianino: Master Draftsmen of the Renaissance", Master Drawings (Fall 2002), vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 258 - 259, no. 45, p. 259
• David Franklin, The Art of Parmigianino, exh. cat., Yale University Press/National Gallery of Canada (New Haven and London, 2003), under cat. no. 18, fig. 48
• Achim Gnann, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, M. Imhof (Petersberg, 2007), cat. no. 55, repr., pp. 48-52
• Joachim Jacoby, ed., Raffael bis Tizian: Italienische Zeichnungen aus dem Städel Museum, exh. cat., Michael Imhof-Verlag (Petersberg, Hessen, 2014), p. 237 n.5

Exhibition History

• Drawings and Prints of the First Maniera 1515-1535, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 02/22/1973 - 03/25/1973
• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
• Correggio and Parmigianino: Master Draughtsmen of the Renaissance, British Museum, London, 10/06/2000 - 01/07/2001; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/05/2001 - 05/06/2001
• 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2017 - 04/20/2017

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