Parmigianino

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Parmigianino

1503-1540

Seated Virgin and Child

ca. 1527-1529

Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink; perimeter mounted into Destailleur album.

3 5/8 x 2 3/4 inches (92 x 70 mm)

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

2006.27:1-96, fol. 31(d)

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Recueil de Dessins folio 31(d).
One of ninety-six drawings that the French architect and collector Hippolyte Destailleur apparently pasted into an empty quarto album. See also Recueil de Dessins (2006.27:1-96).

Inscription:

Inscribed on added piece of paper, at lower center, in pen and brown ink, G (?).

Provenance:

Madame Sophie, daughter of Louis XV; Hippolyte-Alexandre-Gabriel-Walter Destailleur (1822-1893; Lugt 1303 a-b), Paris (no mark; see Lugt 740); his sale, Paris, 26 May 1893, lot 98, entire album; 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:

Sophie, of France, Madame, daughter of Louis XV, 1734-1782, former owner.
Destailleur, Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter, 1822-1893, 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: Popham 1971, 1: 121, no. 303; Gnann 2007, 1: 457, no. 662.
A. E. Popham, Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, 3 vols, New Haven, 1971, p. 121, no. 303, pl. 124.

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