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Woman seated on the ground, her left hand supporting her head (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1503-1540
1503-1540
Title
Woman seated on the ground, her left hand supporting her head (recto)
Date of Production
(circa) 1524
Medium
black chalk and white bodycolour on buff tinted laid paper, the upper edge made up (recto), black chalk, white bodycolour, and red chalk on untinted laid paper (verso)
Dimensions
Height: 23.1 cm
Width: 17.6 cm
Width: 17.6 cm
Accession Number
D.1978.PG.96
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
Related Works
Label Text
The drawing is one of his eight known studies of women engaged in domestic pursuits, a rare genre in the Renaissance. The large scale and high degree of finish suggest that it may have been made for a collector. The detailed application of white opaque watercolour recalls the visual quality of Parmigianino’s coloured woodcuts. The artist’s decision to develop the drawing into an etching (G.1978.PG.40) shows him responding to demand for his work, which through prints could be disseminated more easily.
Provenance
William Coningham, Brighton (1815-1884), L. 476 (lower right); Dr Christian D. Ginsburg, Palmer's Green (1831-1914), L. 1145 (lower right and again on verso, upper right), his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 20-23 July 1915, lot 26 (as 'An old woman seated'); Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1885-1950); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 9 December 1953, lot 73; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978) (£500, plus £50 commission); 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
Raphael, Parmigianino, Barocci: Metafore dello sguardo / Dialects of the Gaze and Metaphors of Vision, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Caffarelli, Rome, 02/10/2015-10/01/2016
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York, 02/10/2012-27/01/2013 ...More
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2012-09/09/2012
Correggio and Parmigianino: master draughtsmen of the Renaissance, British Museum, London, 06/10/2000-07/01/2001
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992
Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/05/1987-12/07/1987
Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 29/01/1982-25/07/1982 ...Less
Raphael, Parmigianino, Barocci: Metafore dello sguardo / Dialects of the Gaze and Metaphors of Vision, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Caffarelli, Rome, 02/10/2015-10/01/2016
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York, 02/10/2012-27/01/2013 ...More
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2012-09/09/2012
Correggio and Parmigianino: master draughtsmen of the Renaissance, British Museum, London, 06/10/2000-07/01/2001
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992
Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/05/1987-12/07/1987
Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 29/01/1982-25/07/1982 ...Less
Literature
Catherine Loisel, "Parmigianino, Bedoli et Sellaer, trois inventions graphiques" L'IDEA 1.2 (2024): 179-246
p. 37, 44-45, repr. on p 44 (recto), 45 (verso)
The Art of Experiment: Parmigianino at The Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2022
cat. no. 26a
pp. 15, 20, 132-33, 136
pp. 134 (recto), 135 (verso), detail is fig. 92 on p. 174, IRR is fig. 93 on p. 175
Jenkins, Catherine, Nadine M. Orenstein and Freyda Spira (eds.), The Renaissance of etching, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019
pp. 141-42 under no. 59
fig. 56 on p. 141
datable to his years in Rome ...More
Raffaello Parmigianino Barocci: Metafore dello sguardo / Raphael, Parmigianino, Barocci: Dialects of the gaze and metaphors of vision, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Caffarelli, Rome, 2 October 2015 - 10 January 2016, 2015-2016
cat. no. III.8
pp. 83, 176
ill. on p. 290 (recto)
Parmigianino: dessins du Louvre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 17 December 2015-15 February 2016 Paris 2015
pp. 33, 173
fig. 26 on p. 33
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, Frick Collection, New York and Courtauld Gallery, London London 2012-2013
cat. no. 10
ill. on p. 71 (verso), p. 73 (recto), p. 75 (detail of recto)
dated c. 1523-24
Parmigianino: the alchemy of beauty: drawings and prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 1 Dec. 2009 - 15 Mar. 2010
p. 97 under no. 37
Gnann, Achim, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, Petersberg 2007
vol. I, pp. 12, 76, 89-90, 120, 167, 377 and vol. II, no. 173
vol. II, p. 180 (recto), p. 181 (verso)
Parmigianino und sein kreis: Druckgraphik aus der Sammlung Baselitz, Alte Pinakothek, Munich and Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 22 Nov. 2007 - 7 Sept. 2008
pp. 9-27, 25n16, p. 44 under no. 6 and p. 173 under no. 59
Ekserdjian, David, Parmigianino, New Haven and London 2006
pp. 168, 226-28
fig. 249 on p. 227 (recto)
Gnann, Achim, 'Un dessin de Parmesan récemment découvert au Louvre' in 'La Revue des Musées de France. Revue du Louvre', Dec. 2004 - pp. 54-56; 5
p. 56
Parmidzhanino v vekakh i iskusstvakh (Parmigianino through the Arts and the Ages: 500th Anniversary of the Artist's Birth), St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg 2004
p. 45 under no. 7
Fornari Schianchi, Lucia and Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Parmigianino e il manierismo europeo: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi. Parma, 13-15 giugno 2002, Milan 2002
p. 333 under no. 2.4.5
entry author: Achim Gnann
Parmigianino tradotto: la fortuna di Francesco Mazzola nelle stampe di riproduzione fra il Cinquecento e l'Ottocento, Biblioteca palatina, Parma, 29 Mar. - 27 Sept. 2003
p. 48 under no. 9
St Petersburg, 2003-04
p. 45 under no. 7
Gnann, Achim, Review of Correggio and Parmigianino in London and New York in 'The Burlington Magazine', Apr. 2001 - pp. 231-34; 143, 1177
p. 233
agrees with Popham is from Parma period
Correggio and Parmigianino: master draughtsmen of the Renaissance, British Museum, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000-2001, 2000-01
cat. no. 72
ill.
dated c. 1525
Landau, David and Peter Parshall, The Renaissance print 1470-1550, New Haven and London 1994
p. 267
fig. 273 on p. 266 (recto)
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 53
pp. 114, 186
ill. on pp. 115 (recto), 187 (verso)
Byam Shaw, James, Review of Parmigianino at the Courtauld, London, in 'The Burlington Magazine', Jul. 1987 - pp. 474-75; 129, 1012
p. 475
Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Courtauld, London, 1987
cat. no. 10
ill. on p. 8
Emison, Patricia Anne, Invention and the Italian Renaissance print, Mantegna to Parmigianino, PhD thesis, University of Michigan 1985
pp. 207-09
fig. 155
Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 33
ill. on p. 40 (verso)
verso exhibited
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1982
cat. no. 173
ill. on p. 122
Freedberg, Sydney J., Review [of Popham's 'Catalogue of drawings by Parmigianino'] in 'The Art Bulletin', Mar. 1973 - pp. 148-50; 55, 1
p. 149
as in the artist's Roman style
Popham, A. E., Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, New Haven and London 1971
vol. I, no. 764 and pp. 7, 15, 61 under no. 60, 117, 148, 220
vol. II, pl. 40 (recto), pl. 41 (verso)
Fagiolo dell'Arco, Maurizio, Il Parmigianino: un saggio sull'ermetismo nel Cinquecento, 1970
p. 30
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 96
pls. LIV (recto), LV (verso)
dated c. 1524-27
Fröhlich-Bum, Lili, 'Additions to a corpus of drawings of Parmigianino' in 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts', Jan. 1958 - pp. 9-14; 51
pp. 12-13, 51
fig. 5 (recto), fig. 5a (verso) ...Less
p. 37, 44-45, repr. on p 44 (recto), 45 (verso)
The Art of Experiment: Parmigianino at The Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2022
cat. no. 26a
pp. 15, 20, 132-33, 136
pp. 134 (recto), 135 (verso), detail is fig. 92 on p. 174, IRR is fig. 93 on p. 175
Jenkins, Catherine, Nadine M. Orenstein and Freyda Spira (eds.), The Renaissance of etching, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019
pp. 141-42 under no. 59
fig. 56 on p. 141
datable to his years in Rome ...More
Raffaello Parmigianino Barocci: Metafore dello sguardo / Raphael, Parmigianino, Barocci: Dialects of the gaze and metaphors of vision, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Caffarelli, Rome, 2 October 2015 - 10 January 2016, 2015-2016
cat. no. III.8
pp. 83, 176
ill. on p. 290 (recto)
Parmigianino: dessins du Louvre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 17 December 2015-15 February 2016 Paris 2015
pp. 33, 173
fig. 26 on p. 33
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, Frick Collection, New York and Courtauld Gallery, London London 2012-2013
cat. no. 10
ill. on p. 71 (verso), p. 73 (recto), p. 75 (detail of recto)
dated c. 1523-24
Parmigianino: the alchemy of beauty: drawings and prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 1 Dec. 2009 - 15 Mar. 2010
p. 97 under no. 37
Gnann, Achim, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, Petersberg 2007
vol. I, pp. 12, 76, 89-90, 120, 167, 377 and vol. II, no. 173
vol. II, p. 180 (recto), p. 181 (verso)
Parmigianino und sein kreis: Druckgraphik aus der Sammlung Baselitz, Alte Pinakothek, Munich and Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 22 Nov. 2007 - 7 Sept. 2008
pp. 9-27, 25n16, p. 44 under no. 6 and p. 173 under no. 59
Ekserdjian, David, Parmigianino, New Haven and London 2006
pp. 168, 226-28
fig. 249 on p. 227 (recto)
Gnann, Achim, 'Un dessin de Parmesan récemment découvert au Louvre' in 'La Revue des Musées de France. Revue du Louvre', Dec. 2004 - pp. 54-56; 5
p. 56
Parmidzhanino v vekakh i iskusstvakh (Parmigianino through the Arts and the Ages: 500th Anniversary of the Artist's Birth), St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg 2004
p. 45 under no. 7
Fornari Schianchi, Lucia and Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Parmigianino e il manierismo europeo: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi. Parma, 13-15 giugno 2002, Milan 2002
p. 333 under no. 2.4.5
entry author: Achim Gnann
Parmigianino tradotto: la fortuna di Francesco Mazzola nelle stampe di riproduzione fra il Cinquecento e l'Ottocento, Biblioteca palatina, Parma, 29 Mar. - 27 Sept. 2003
p. 48 under no. 9
St Petersburg, 2003-04
p. 45 under no. 7
Gnann, Achim, Review of Correggio and Parmigianino in London and New York in 'The Burlington Magazine', Apr. 2001 - pp. 231-34; 143, 1177
p. 233
agrees with Popham is from Parma period
Correggio and Parmigianino: master draughtsmen of the Renaissance, British Museum, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000-2001, 2000-01
cat. no. 72
ill.
dated c. 1525
Landau, David and Peter Parshall, The Renaissance print 1470-1550, New Haven and London 1994
p. 267
fig. 273 on p. 266 (recto)
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 53
pp. 114, 186
ill. on pp. 115 (recto), 187 (verso)
Byam Shaw, James, Review of Parmigianino at the Courtauld, London, in 'The Burlington Magazine', Jul. 1987 - pp. 474-75; 129, 1012
p. 475
Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Courtauld, London, 1987
cat. no. 10
ill. on p. 8
Emison, Patricia Anne, Invention and the Italian Renaissance print, Mantegna to Parmigianino, PhD thesis, University of Michigan 1985
pp. 207-09
fig. 155
Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 33
ill. on p. 40 (verso)
verso exhibited
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1982
cat. no. 173
ill. on p. 122
Freedberg, Sydney J., Review [of Popham's 'Catalogue of drawings by Parmigianino'] in 'The Art Bulletin', Mar. 1973 - pp. 148-50; 55, 1
p. 149
as in the artist's Roman style
Popham, A. E., Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, New Haven and London 1971
vol. I, no. 764 and pp. 7, 15, 61 under no. 60, 117, 148, 220
vol. II, pl. 40 (recto), pl. 41 (verso)
Fagiolo dell'Arco, Maurizio, Il Parmigianino: un saggio sull'ermetismo nel Cinquecento, 1970
p. 30
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 96
pls. LIV (recto), LV (verso)
dated c. 1524-27
Fröhlich-Bum, Lili, 'Additions to a corpus of drawings of Parmigianino' in 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts', Jan. 1958 - pp. 9-14; 51
pp. 12-13, 51
fig. 5 (recto), fig. 5a (verso) ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower right, light brown ink: “No 29 / a”; lower right, light brown ink, strengthened in darker brown ink: “Permegiano”. Verso: upper right, dark brown ink: “e”; lower right, graphite, upside down: “92”; lower right, light brown ink, strengthened in darker brown ink and cut off (indication of some trimming): “Permegiano”.
Collector's mark: Repeated at Recto, lower right corner and Verso, upper right corner, stamped in black: Christian David Ginsburg (L.1145); Recto: lower right corner, blindstamped: William Coningham (L.476).
Inscription: Recto: lower right, light brown ink: “No 29 / a”; lower right, light brown ink, strengthened in darker brown ink: “Permegiano”. Verso: upper right, dark brown ink: “e”; lower right, graphite, upside down: “92”; lower right, light brown ink, strengthened in darker brown ink and cut off (indication of some trimming): “Permegiano”.
Collector's mark: Repeated at Recto, lower right corner and Verso, upper right corner, stamped in black: Christian David Ginsburg (L.1145); Recto: lower right corner, blindstamped: William Coningham (L.476).
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