Parmigianino

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Parmigianino
1503-1540
Figures in the Foreground of the Marriage of the Virgin
ca. 1526
Red chalk, with pen and brown ink and wash, on paper.
7 x 9 1/8 inches (179 x 231 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 48
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Study for the figures in the lower part of the composition engraved by Jacopo Caraglio.

Inscription: 

Inscribed at upper center, in pen and brown ink, "54".
Watermark: Letters "IHS" with a cross rising from crossbar of letter "H" (Christogram). Cf. Briquet 9462.

Provenance: 
Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon (1747-1825), Paris (Lugt 780); 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.
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Denon, Vivant, 1747-1825, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: no. 48; Antal 1928, 52; Copertini 1932, 55, note 27; Quintavalle 1948, 196; Copertini 1949, 13; Freedberg 1950, 65, 174; Popham 1952, 58, under no. 26; Washington and elsewhere 1962-63, 25, under no. 42; New York 1965-66, 59, no. 92; Popham 1971, 1:122-23, no. 312; Providence 1973, no. 34; Los Angeles 1976, 74, no. 84; Jaffé 1994, 244, under no. 677; Gnann 1996, 362, note 9; Gnann 2000, 70; Bambach, in London and New York 2000-2001, no. 77; Chiusa 2001, 213; Ekserdjian 2006, 216; Gnann 2007, 412, no. 399; New York 2007, 15.
Charles Fairfax Murray, Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray (J. Pierpont Morgan Collection), 4 vols, London 1905-1912, vol. 1, no. 48.
Frederick Antal, "Un capolavoro inedito del Parmigianino," Pinacotheca 1, 1928, p. 52.
G. Copertini, Il Parmigianino, 2 vols., Parma, 1932, p. 55, note 27.
Armando Ottaviano Quintavalle, Il Parmigianino, Milan, 1948, p. 196.
Sydney J. Freedberg, Parmigianino: His Works in Painting, Cambridge, 1950, pp. 65, 174, repr. fig. 40.
A.E. Popham, The Drawings of Parmigianino, London, 1953, p. 58, under no. 26.
A.E. Popham, Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth. A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Art Institute of Chicago; and California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962-63, p. 25, under no. 42.
Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle, Drawings from New York Collections, I: The Italian Renaissance, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1965, p. 59, no. 92, repr.
A. E. Popham, Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, 3 vols, New Haven, 1971, vol. 1, pp. 122-23, no. 312; vol. 2, repr. pl. 142.
Janetta R. Benton et al., Drawings and Prints of the First Maniera 1515-1535, exh. cat., Department of Art, Brown University at Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1973, no. 34, repr.
Ebria Feinblatt, Old Master Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1976, p. 74, no. 84.
Michael Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings: Bolognese and Emilian Schools, London, 1994, p. 244, under no. 677.
Achim Gnann, "Projekte für die Cesi-Kapelle in S. Maria della Pace in Rom," Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 59, no. 3 (1996), p. 362, note 9.
Hugo Chapman and Carmen C. Bambach, Drawings of Correggio and Parmigianino in English and American Collections, exh. cat., British Museum, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000-2001, no. 77, repr.
Maria Cristina Chiusa, Parmigianino, with register of documents compiled by Marzio Dall'Acqua, Milan, 2001, p. 213.
Achim Gnann, "Per una cronologia dei disegni romani di Parmigianino," Quaderni del Palazzo Te 7 (2000), p. 70, note 62.
David Ekserdjian, Parmigianino, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 216.
Isabelle Dervaux, Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the Old Masters, exh. cat., Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2007, pp. 15, 18, repr.

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