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The Swooning of the Virgin (recto)
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1503-1540
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Width: 15.7 cm
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Parmigianino’s primary interest in this drawing was to explore the emotional quality of the narrative through a dramatic composition. Using swift, yet carefully placed strokes of red chalk, he imbued a poignant subject with great intensity.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/05/1987-12/07/1987
Literature
cat. no. 24
and on p. 28
ill. on p. 123, UV of verso is fig. 91 on p. 174
Py, Bernadette, Les dessins italiens de Pierre Crozat (1665-1740). L'oeil de Mariette, http://mini-site.louvre.fr/trimestriel/2015/Catalogue_Crozat
p. 484
Gnann, Achim, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, Petersberg 2007
vol. II, no. 251
ill. (recto)
as 'Mournful Mother of God surrounded by a group of men and women' ...More
Ekserdjian, David, Correggio, New Haven and London 1997
pp. 163-66
Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Courtauld, London, 1987
cat. no. 16
Popham, A. E., Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, New Haven and London 1971
no. 773
pl. 251
would date later than Seilern, though no specifics
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; V
no. 358
pl. XLII
dated c. 1523
Sotheby's, London, Important Old Master drawings, 12 November 1964
lot 58
ill.
as on Ottley's mount ...Less
Inscriptions
Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, written in brown ink: Pierre Crozat (L.3612).
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, Crozat number (L.3612): "102 [?]" [the number is unclear but 101 and 107 are already accounted for by Bernadette Py in Crozat's inventory, see her catalogue on the Louvre website; under UV it looks more like 103, but again this appears on another drawing now in the Louvre, INV 8540. Popham and Gnann suggested it could also be 182, which Py's catalogue does not list as assigned to any known drawings]. Verso: upper left corner, brown ink: a symbol – “P” crossed by two horizontal bars (not found on Lugt).
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