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Study for the legs of Saint John the Baptist

Maker

(artist)
1503-1540

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1521

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper, left edge made up, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 15.5 cm
Width: 11.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1982.JW.36

Mode of Acquisition

John Witt, Art Fund bequest & grant aid, 1982

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

Nicholas Lanier, London (1588-1666), L.2886 (lower right); Jonathan Richardson, the elder, London (1667-1745), L.2984 (mount, verso, upper centre); Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.3016a (mount, verso, lower left); his estate sale, Harry Phillips (London), 5 - 22 March 1798, part of lot 1056 (mount, verso, lower left): Leo Schidlof (dealer in Vienna and Paris, London from 1946); purchased from him by Sir John Witt, London (1907-1982), L.646a (mount, verso, lower left), n.d.; John Witt Bequest via the Art Fund 1982 Richardson the elder's shelfmark on the verso may indicate this came from Padre Resta's collection via Lord John Somers, though there is no 'Resta-Somers' number on the recto (there is not always one on drawings with this provenance, see Lugt 2984). Alternatively, the shelfmark may just be Richardson's own - these marks are still not fully understood.

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

Maud Guichané and Rosie Razzall, eds. Italian Drawings from Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. London, 2024
194-195
repr. on p. 194

The Art of Experiment: Parmigianino at The Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2022
cat. no. 4
and on p. 13
ill. on p. 53

Gnann, Achim, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, Petersberg 2007
vol. II, no. 8
ill. ...More

Vaccaro, Mary, Parmigianino: the paintings, Turin 2002
p. 128 under no. 2

Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Courtauld, London, 1987
cat. no. 4

Popham, A. E., Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, New Haven and London 1971
no. 779 and under no. 51
pl. 4 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none evident in the drawing sheet. Support (historic), Verso: right centre edge, top half of a large fleur-de-lis.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Verso: upper right edge, graphite: "z"; upper centre, brown ink: Richardson the elder's hand, shelf mark: "K. 26."; lower left, red ink, Reynolds's lot number: "Lot 1056".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black: Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364); lower right corner, stamped in black: Nicholas Lanier (L.2886). Mount (historic), Verso: upper centre, pen and brown ink: Jonathan Richardson, the elder (L.2984), shelfmark transcribed in inscription field; lower left corner, pen and red ink: Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.3016a), lot number transcribed in inscription field; lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir John Witt (L.646a).

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