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Conversion of Saul (recto and verso)
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1503-1540
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Width: 12.6 cm
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Executed while Parmigianino was living in Bologna, the painting allows us to date this drawing to 1527-29. The composition was rapidly sketched in black chalk using broad hatching with numerous changes which suggest that he was exploring solutions for the painting’s final design.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Drawings Gallery Display - Renaissance Modern, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 22/04/2015-07/06/2015
Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/05/1987-12/07/1987 ...More
Old master drawings from the collection of Mr. C.R. Rudolf, Arts Council Gallery, London; City Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham; Leeds City Art Gallery, 05/01/1962-07/04/1962
Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1953 ...Less
Literature
cat. no. 5b
and on pp. 54-55, 58, 71n4
ill. on p. 59 (recto and verso), detail of verso is fig. 80 on p. 170
Parmigianino: The Conversion of Saul. From the Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. An Exhibition part of the Masterpieces of World Museums at the Hermitage series (illustrated booklet), The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 16 June - 28 September 2008, 2008
? in Russian
ill. on p. 20 (recto)
Gnann, Achim, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, Petersberg 2007
vol. I, pp. 138-39 and vol. II, no. 451
ill. (recto and verso) ...More
Fadda, Elisabetta and Mario di Giampaolo, Parmigianino: catalogo completo dei dipinti, Santarcangelo di Romagna: Idea Libri 2003
p. 88
Vaccaro, Mary, Parmigianino: the paintings, Turin 2002
pp. 164-65
fig. 23a
Hirst, Michael, 'Parmigianino and the Antique: A Supplement' in 'Apollo', 2001 - pp. 53-54; 154, 475
p. 53
Correggio and Parmigianino: master draughtsmen of the Renaissance, British Museum, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000-2001, 2000-01
fig. 37 on p. 147 under no. 97 (verso)
entry author: H. Chapman
Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Courtauld, London, 1987
cat. no. 22
Rossi, Paola, L'opera completa del Parmigianino, Milan 1980
no. 37
fig. 37
Popham, A. E., Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, New Haven and London 1971
no. 769
pl. 221
dated 1527-31
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 363
Fagiolo dell'Arco, Maurizio, Il Parmigianino: un saggio sull'ermetismo nel Cinquecento, 1970
p. 268 under no. 28
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; V
no. 363
pl. XLVII
dated c. 1527-28
Kunsthistorisches Museum. Katalog der Gemäldegalerie, Vienna 1965 (2nd ed.); I
p. 179 under no. 781
Old master drawings from the collection of Mr. C.R. Rudolf, Arts Council Gallery, London; City Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham; Leeds City Art Gallery, 1962
cat. no. 49
Popham, A.E., 'Un disegno del Parmigianino' in 'Parma per l'arte', 1953 (Sept.-Dec.) - pp. 107-108; Anno III, Fascicolo III
pp. 107-08
fig. 1
as undoubtedly by Parmigianino
Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1953
cat. no. 70 ...Less
Inscriptions
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: John Du Pan (L.1440); lower left, stamped in black: unidentified collector (L.967).
Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, brown ink: "Permigianino.". Paper removed from backing (in 1987 by Conservator William Clarke), now in object file: graphite: “[…]se Parmesan / 30 / 1503-1540 / Fo[rest of word unclear]”.
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