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Thisbe Falling on Pyramus' Sword. Verso: Slight Sketch of a Palm-Tree

Parmigianino
1503-1540

Thisbe Falling on Pyramus' Sword. Verso: Slight Sketch of a Palm-Tree

ca. 1523-1526
6 5/16 x 5 3/16 inches (161 x 131 mm)
Red chalk, with whiteopaque watercolor, on paper; framing lines in black chalk; verso: red chalk.
1983.36

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Associated names
Baiardo, Cavaliere, former owner.
Cavalaca, Marcantonio, former owner.
Crozat, M. (Pierre), 1661-1740, former owner.
Banks, Thomas, 1735-1805, former owner.
Triqueti, Henri Joseph François, baron de, 1804-1874, former owner.
Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Oakland and elsewhere 1956, no. 70; Fröhlich-Bum 1958, 10, no. 2; Hagerstown 1960, no. 26; Staten Island 1961, no. 27; Hamburg and Cologne 1963-64, no. 108; Notre Dame and Binghampton 1970, 77-78, no. D16l; Norton 1971, no. 16; Popham 1971, 1: 225, no. 787; Providence 1973, 30, no. 29; Washington and New York 1973-74, 71, no. 58; Fellows Report 1984, 276; Gnann 2007, 1: 418, no. 433.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 276.
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 58, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
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