bears old attribution: ‘del Parmigianino’ lower left, pen and brown ink and wash, over traces of black chalk
415 x 275 mm.
Provenance
Filippo Baldinucci, Florence, (1625-1697), his numbering on the verso top right; P.J. Mariette (1694-1774) (L.1852, twice, recto), his sale, Paris, 15 November 1775 - 30 January 1776, F. Basan, Catalogue Raisonné des différens objects de curiosités dans les Sciences et Arts composoient le Cabinet de feu M. Mariette, p.81, lot 508 (as Parmigianino); Purchased by l’abbé Campion de Tersan (Charles-Phillipe Campion de Tersan (1736-1819) (see under L.1038 “Dans sa vieillesse il se vit oblige de vendre beaucoup objets d’un haut prix”)possibly his sale 8th - 30th November, 1819, lot 556 Etude. A la plume (catalogue by Grivaud); Comte Moriz von Fries (1777-1826)(L. 2903); Consigned by Fries to W. Mellish in 1820, one of 150 major drawings sold to Sir Thomas Lawrence, as Parmigianino (see Lugt, under no 2903); Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445); Samuel Woodburn The Lawrence Gallery, Fourth Exhibition, 1836, no 3 (as Parmigianino); Purchased by Charles Sackville Bale (L.640/641); his sale, London, Christie’s 10 June 1881, lot 2389, as Parmigianino (with the additional provenance of King Charles I of England); Sir James Knowles (1831-1908), (not included in his sale London, Christie’s 27th-29th May, 1908); by descent to the previous owner, Canada
Literature
.E. Popham, 'Parmiganino as a Landscape Draughtsman', The Art Quarterly, Autumn, 1957, p. 280; A.E. Popham, 'Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino', New Haven and London, 1971, vol 1 p.270, Appendix II, no 3; Linda Wolk-Simon, 'Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings in New York Collections', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 11th - March 27th, 1994, p. 9, under no. 8; Lucia Fornari Schianchi (editor), 'Parmigianino e il manierismo europeo', Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi – Parma 13 – 15 giugio 2002, Silvana Editorale, 2002: Nicholas Turner, 'Le periferie del corpus graphicum del Parmigianino. Problemi di attribuzioni incerte fra gli specialisti', p. 231, fig. 5, Mario di Giampaolo, 'Novità su Parmigianino disegnatore di “paesi”', pp. 233-236, fig 3; Elisabetta Fadda and Mario di Giampaolo, 'Parmigianino, catalogo completo dei dipinti', Idea Libri, 2003, p. 16, reproduced p. 17; Gabinetto Disegne e Stampe degli Uffizzi LXXXIX, 'Il Parmigianino e il Fascino di Parma', exhibition catalogue, pp 48 & 49, fig 38, discussed under no. 48; David Ekserdjian, 'Parmigianino', New Haven and London, 2006, p 279, note 102
Exhibited
London, Samuel Woodburn, The Lawrence Gallery, Fourth Exhibition, (drawings by Correggio and Parmigianino), 1836, no 3, described as: ‘very interesting and probably the only specimen existing of the sort of subject’
