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Standing man in profile, and two half-length female figures

Maker

(artist)
1503-1540

Title

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 15.6 cm
Width: 11.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.94

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

probably Everhard Jabach, Paris (1618-1695) (variant of L.2959 or L.2960 on verso); if so, likely purchased from his heirs by Pierre Crozat, Paris (1665-1740), L.3612 (at lower right); likely his estate sale, Mariette (Paris), 10 April - 13 May 1741 (though Py could not reconcile this drawing with any of those in Crozat's 1741 catalogue); R.P. Morris; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 27 November 1957, part of lot 34, together with D.1978.PG.93; purchased there by Baron Martin von Koblitz (1868-1961), probably on behalf of Colnaghi (London), as purchased there the same day by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£150 for both); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - The Art of Experiment: Parmigianino at The Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/05/2022-06/05/2022

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
cat. no. 12
and on pp. 18, 33, 49
ill. on p. 86, infrared detail is fig. 31 on p. 86, watermark is fig. 95 on p. 176

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. 395
ill.
dated to his Roman period ...More

Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Courtauld, London, 1987
cat. no. 6

Popham, A. E., Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, New Haven and London 1971
no. 762
pl. 287

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 94

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 94
pl. LII
dated c. 1521-24 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre edge, cut off: lower half of an upright griffon or lion, 27 cm between chain lines (no exact match on Piccard or Briquet as all much wider distances between chain lines, but mark generally dated mid-14th to mid-15th centuries).

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right, written in brown ink: Pierre Crozat (L.3612). ? brown ink and red chalk scribbled on Verso, upper centre: have the appearance of Everhard Jabach's notations and paraphe (close to L.2959 and L.2960).

Inscription: Recto: lower right, brown ink, Crozat number (L.3612): "25" (is unclear to naked eye and elsewhere recorded as "35" but evident under microscope and UV).

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