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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.297
People
Parmigianino, Italian (Parma, Italy 1503 - 1540 Casalmaggiore, Italy)
Previously attributed to School of Parmigianino, Italian (Parma, Italy 1503 - 1540 Casalmaggiore, Italy)
Title
Design for an Altarpiece
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1520
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Parma
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298524

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on cream antique laid paper, laid down
Dimensions
12.4 × 9.4 cm (4 7/8 × 3 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: non visible as laid down
  • collector's mark: l.l. corner, blue ink: L. 1902 (G. Morelli)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Giovanni Morelli, Milan, Italy (Lugt 1902). Gustavo Frizzoni [1]. Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Musem, 1932


Notes
[1] According to "I Disegni della R. Pinacoteca di Brera," cat. no. 44: "Deposito del dott. Gustavo Frizzoni"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.297
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri, I disegni della R. Pinacoteca di Brera, Alfieri & Lacroix (Milan, Italy, 1906), cat. no. 44, n.p.; repr. pl. 44, n.p., as "Maniera del Parmigianino"
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 138, pp. 80-81, as School of Parmigianino
  • Arthur E. Popham, Review of "Drawings in the Fogg Museum", The Burlington Magazine (June 1948), vol. XC, no. 543, p. 179, no. 138, p. 179 as autograph
  • Sydney J. Freedberg, Parmigianino: His Works in Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1950), p. 252
  • Augusta Ghidiglia Quintavalle, Gli affreschi giovanili del Parmigianino, Amilcare Pizzi Editore (Milan, Italy, 1968), p. 30; repr. fig. 5, p. 13
  • Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, Il Parmigianino: un saggio sull'ermetismo nel Cinquecento, Mario Bulzoni (Rome, Italy, 1970), p. 47; repr. fig. 117, n.p.; cat. no. 117, p. 493
  • Arthur E. Popham, Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1971), vol. I: p. 1; cat. no. 51, p. 58; under no. 76, p. 67; under no. 381...
  • Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), p. 7; cat. no. 18, p. 48; repr. in color, p. 49
  • Aspetti dell'arte a Roma prima e dopo Raffaello, exh. cat., De Luca Editore (Rome, Italy, 1984), p. 82, repr. fig. 31
  • Giulio Bora and M. Cristina Rodeschini Galati, I disegni della collezione Morelli, Credito Bergamasco (Bergamo, Italy, 1988), f.n. 53, p. 30; cat. no. 14, p. 80; repr. in color, p. 81; no. 14, p. ...
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), pp. 8, 32, 36; repr. fig. 23, p. 38
  • Cecil Gould, Parmigianino, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1994), p. 18; repr. fig. 6, p. 20; indirect ref. p. 21; under Bardi, p. 182
  • Michael Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings: Volume 3, Bolognese and Emilian Schools, Phaidon Press (London, England, 1994), under no. 663, p. 233
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 ("Cartella II")
  • Mary Vaccaro, Parmigianino: The Paintings, Umberto Allemandi & C. (Turin and New York, 2002), p. 128 under cat. no. 2
  • Mario di Giampaolo and Andrea Muzzi, Il Parmigianino e il fascino di Parma, exh. cat., L. S. Olschki (Florence, 2003), under cat. no. 1
  • David Ekserdjian, Parmigianino, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2006), pp. 242-243, fig. 266
  • Achim Gnann, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, M. Imhof (Petersberg, 2007), cat. no. 6, repr., p. 32

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