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The Entombment facing right

Maker

(artist)
1503-1540

(etcher)
1503-1540

Title

The Entombment facing right

Date of Production

(circa) 1527

Medium

Etching with drypoint and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 32.9 cm
Width: 23.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1978.PG.36

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




Label Text

The Entombment is the most ambitious of Parmigianino’s etchings. Its gestation was also the most complicated. The print shown here is the second of two versions, which Parmigianino made after the first printing plate suffered damage. With characteristic resourcefulness, the artist turned this setback into a creative opportunity. Rather than reproduce his earlier design, the second etching explores new possibilities. He flipped the composition, exploiting the inevitable reversal of the image as it was transferred from the printing plate to paper.

Provenance

Colnaghi, London, by 1954; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 7 April 1954 (£15); 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

Bruegel to Freud: Prints from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 19/06/2014-21/09/2014

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. 25b
pp. 118, 125-27, 130-31
ill. on p. 129 (recto), p. 130 (verso), watermark is fig. 100 on p. 177

Jenkins, Catherine, Nadine M. Orenstein and Freyda Spira (eds.), The Renaissance of etching, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019
pp. 147-50, no. 66

Parmigianino: the alchemy of beauty: drawings and prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 1 Dec. 2009 - 15 Mar. 2010
pp. 79-83, no. 29 ...More

Gnann, Achim, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, Petersberg 2007
pp. 107-14, 166-67, 174

Ekserdjian, David, Parmigianino, New Haven and London 2006
p. 235

Mistrali, Emilio, Parmigianino incisore: catalogo completo delle incisioni, Parma 2003
p. 100, no. 12, i/ii

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
pp. 46-47, no. 5

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
pp. 85, 329, no. 2.4.2

The art of Parmigianino, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 3 October 2003 - 4 January 2004; The Frick Collection, New York, 27 January - 18 April 2004 New Haven 2003
pp. 153-57, no. 37

Ekserdjian, David, 'Parmigianino and the Entombment' in 'Coming about...A Festschrift for John Shearman', Cambridge, Massachusetts 2001 - pp. 165-72
pp. 165-72

Gnann, Achim and Oberhuber, Konrad (eds.), Roma e lo stile classico di Raffaello: 1515-1527, Palazzo Te, Mantua and Albertina, Vienna, 1999
p. 340, no. 248

Landau, David and Peter Parshall, The Renaissance print 1470-1550, New Haven and London 1994
p. 269

Reed, Sue Welsh and Richard Wallace (eds.), Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cleveland Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1989
pp. 13-16, no. 9

Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Courtauld, London, 1987
cat. no. 37
Fig. p. 16

Popham, A. E., Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, New Haven and London 1971
p. 14

Oberhuber, Konrad, 'Parmigianino als Radierer' in 'Alte und moderne Kunst', 1963 - pp. 33-36; 8
p. 36

Parmigianino und sein Kreis: Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik aus eigenem Besitz, Albertina, Vienna, 1963
pp. 20-22, no. 43

Bartsch, Adam, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1803-21
XVI.8.5 (1818)

Vasari, Giorgio, Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori scultori, e architettori, Florence 1568
vol. II, p. 304 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, lower left, anchor enclosed in a circle, rotated 90 degrees (possibly Briquet 577 - Syracuse, 1508)

Inscription: verso, upper edge, brown ink : A P a 6 / 294 //

Inscription: verso, lower right, graphite : Parmigianino / B XVI.8.5 early state / ex. C 27176 //

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