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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.313
People
Parmigianino, Italian (Parma, Italy 1503 - 1540 Casalmaggiore, Italy)
Title
Putti; verso: Angel Musicians
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Parma
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298584

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash, partially squared in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink rubbed with red chalk
Dimensions
13 x 17.7 cm (5 1/8 x 6 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: no watermark
  • collector's mark: l.r. corner: L. 2184 (L. Richardson, Sr.)
  • collector's mark: l.r. corner: L. 2648 (W. Russell)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jonathan Richardson Sr., London, England (Lugt 2184). William Russell, London, England (Lugt 2648). Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.313
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 136, p. 80; vol. 2, repr. fig. 81 (recto)
  • James Byam Shaw, Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth: A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection, exh. cat., International Exhibitions Foundation/National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1969-1970), under cat. no. 50, p. 29
  • Arthur E. Popham, Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1971), cat. no. 50, pp. 57-58; pp. 119, 210, 262; repr. pls. 150 (r.) and 151 (v.)...
  • Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 19, p. 50, and p. 8; repr. (recto), p. 51
  • 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. 32 and recto repr. color, n.p.; pp. 32 and 36; under cat. nos. 31...
  • Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's (London, England, July 2, 1990), p. 62, under cat. no. 71
  • Michael Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings: Volume 3, Bolognese and Emilian Schools, Phaidon Press (London, England, 1994), cat. no. 679 and repr. (recto and verso), p. 245
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella II")
  • Achim Gnann, "Per una cronologia dei disegni romani di Parmigianino", Quaderni di Palazzo Te (2000), no. 7, p. 71 note 78
  • Achim Gnann, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, M. Imhof (Petersberg, 2007), cat. no. 516, repr. (recto and verso), pp. 87, 148
  • Mary Vaccaro, "Drawing in the School of Parma: New Attributions for Alessandro Mazzola Bedoli", Master Drawings (Spring 2011), vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 17-32, p. 25, fig. 13

Exhibition History

  • Christmas in Old Master Drawings, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, 11/30/1951 - 12/23/1951

Verification Level

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