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Cherubs in clouds (recto)

Maker

(artist)
ca. 1492-1556 (Life dates)

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1503-1540

Title

Cherubs in clouds (recto)

Date of Production

1500 - 1599

Medium

red chalk (recto), red and black chalk, pen and brown ink, touches of white bodycolour (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 25.8 cm
Width: 18.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.356

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

unidentified collector, L.2898 (lower left); Richard Cosway, London (1740-1821), L.628 (lower left); possibly his estate sale, Stanley’s (London), 14 - 22 February 1822, among lots 299-305 (drawings by Parmigianino); Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1 June 1964 (£1100, as Parmigianino); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/05/1987-12/07/1987

Literature

The Art of Experiment: Parmigianino at The Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2022
p. 19
fig. 7 on p. 19 (verso)

Turner, James Grantham, Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy, New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2017
p. 374
fig. 7.57 (detail of verso)
as Parmigianino

Vaccaro, Mary, 'Drawing in the School of Parma: new attributions for Alessandro Mazzola Bedoli' in 'Master Drawings', Spring 2011 - pp. 17-32; 49, 1
p. 25
fig. 11 (verso) on p. 24 (as Anselmi)
as Anselmi ...More

Gnann, Achim, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, Petersberg 2007
vol. II, no. 517
ill.
as Parmigianino

Ekserdjian, David, 'Anselmi' in 'Basilica cattedrale di Parma: novecento anni di arte, storia, fede. Vol. 2', Parma 2005
pp. 67-68
as Anselmi

Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Courtauld, London, 1987
cat. no. 9

Godi, Giovanni and Giuseppe Cirillo, 'Anselmi e Martini: tre nuovi disegni per gli affreschi in Duomo' in 'Parma nell'Arte', 1982; 14
pp. 75-80
as Anselmi

Pellegri, Marco, Parma Nell'Arte, Parma 1982

Popham, A. E., Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, New Haven and London 1971
no. 821 (or 822?)
ill.
as Parmigianino

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; V
no. 356
pls. XXXVIII (recto), XXXIX (verso)
as Parmigianino? dated early c. 1520s ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Richard Cosway (L.628); lower left, stamped in black: unidentified collector (L.2898).

Inscription: none.

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