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Parmigianino

1503-1540

The Contest of Apollo and Marsyas

ca. 1527-1530

Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on paper.

8 2/25 x 5 20/32 inches (202 x 141 mm; maximum dimensions)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

IV, 44

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Finished modello for chiaroscuro woodcut attributed to Niccolò Vicentino.
Oval design.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso in graphite, "1678; Sir Chas. Greville."

Provenance:

Probably Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel (1585-1646; see Lugt 508); by descent to Henry Stafford-Howard, 1st Earl of Stafford (1658-1719); his sale, Tart Hall, London, 1720; Antoino Maria Zanetti (1680-1775; see Lugt 779), Venice (no mark; see Lugt 2992f-h); Everhard Jabach (1618-1695), Paris (no mark; see Lugt 2959; his inventory folio 85 no. 81 "Parmigianino - Apollon debout et Marsyas assis dans un ovale à la plume lavé et haussé sur papier bistré long de 8 1/4 et haut de 10 1/2 pouces 2 livres[livres superscript] 10 sols[sols superscript]"); Gerhard Michael Jabach (-1753); his sale, Amsterdam, 16 October 1753, lot 554; Isaac Walraven (1686-1765; no mark; see Lugt 2034), Amsterdam; his sale, De Winter & Yver, Amsterdam, 14 October 1765, portfolio E, lot 275 "Apollo en Marsias, in een Ovaal Formaat, getekend als de voorige (met de Pen en lugtig gewassen me Oostindische Inkt, en gehoogt)"; A. Rutgers (1695-1778; no mark; see Lugt 1852); his sale, De Winter & Yver, Amsterdam 1 December 1778, portfolio G, lot 435; possibly John McGowan (-1804), Edinburgh (no mark; see Lugt 1496); his? sale T. Philipe, London, 30 January 1804, lot 445 "Parmeggiano. Apollo and Marsyas, free pen and Indian ink, heightened, fine; with the print in chiaroscuro"; Baron Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825; Lugt 780), Paris (Lugt 780); his sale Paris, 1826, lot 387; SSir Charles Greville (1763-1836), English army officer (Lugt 549); George Guy Greville, 4th Earl of Warwick (1818-1893) Warwick Castle (Lugt 2600); his sale Christie's, London, 21 May 1896, part of lot 260, as Parmegiano "Apollo and Marsyas; and another Sketch"; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Arundel, Thomas Howard, Earl of, 1585-1646, former owner.
Stafford, Henry Stafford Howard, Earl of, approximately 1648-approximately 1719, former owner.
Zanetti, Antonio Maria, 1680-1757, former owner.
Jabach, Everhard, 1618-1695, former owner.
Jabach, Gerhard Michael, -1753, former owner.
Walraven, Izaak, 1686-1765, former owner.
McGowan, John, -1804, former owner.
Rutgers, A., 1695-1778, former owner.
McGouan, John, former owner.
Denon, Vivant, 1747-1825, former owner.
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography:

Selected references: Duval 1829, 3: plate 174; Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 44; Popham 1950, 284, under no. 597; Philadelphia 1950-51, no. 40; Wiles 1966, 99-100; Stockholm 1970, 32, no. 35; Popham 1971, 1: 124, no. 319; Trotter 1974, 228; Palo Alto 1980-81, 40, under no. 74; New York 1981, no. 21; Olszewski 1981, 130-31; Saslow 1986, 111; Birke and Kertész 1995, under no. 2665; Wyss 1996, 100-07, 149; Paris 1999-2000, 458, no. 558; London and New York 2000-01, 123, no. 78; Gnann 2001, 234, no. 78; Rome and Weimar 2001, nos. 8, 68; Gnann 2002, 296, note 12; Py 2002, 178, no. 739; Matteo Burioni, in Nova 2006, 52, 78; Zecher 2007, 61-6; Gnann 2007, 448, no. 612.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 44, repr.

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