1986.362: Christ among the Doctors

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1986.362

People

Parmigianino, Italian (Parma, Italy 1503 - 1540 Casalmaggiore, Italy)
Previously attributed to Michelangelo Anselmi, Italian (Lucca or Siena, Italy 1491/92 - 1554/56 Parma, Italy)

Title

Christ among the Doctors

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1524-1525

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Parma

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294847

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk with touches of red chalk on off-white antique laid paper

Dimensions

31.1 x 42.1 cm (12 1/4 x 16 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: non visible
• inscription: center bottom edge, black chalk: 232
• inscription: lower center, brown ink: indecipherable inscription

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Rudolf Wien; William H. Schab Galleryl, New York; sold to anonymous donor; gift to Fogg Art Museum 1986.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift

Accession Year

1986

Object Number

1986.362

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Graphic Arts of Five Centuries: Drawings, Engravings, Etchings, Woodcuts and Lithographs By Old and Modern Masters, exh. cat., William H. Schab Gallery (New York, NY, 1975), cat. no. 3, pp. 6-7; repr. pp. 8-9 as Michelangelo Anselmi
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), pp. 32 and 36; cat. no. 31, n.p.; repr. color, n.p.
• Sylvie Béguin, "Nosadella et Parmigianino", Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Jürgen Winkelmann, Paparo (Naples, 1999), pp. 36-40, fig. 1
• Dr. Carmen Bambach and Hugo Chapman, Correggio and Parmigianino: Master Draughtsmen of the Renaissance, exh. cat., British Museum Press (London, England, 2000), cat. no. 55 and repr. color, p. 99; also pp. 19 and 100
• Achim Gnann, Review of Correggio and Parmigianino, London and New York, The Burlington Magazine (April 2001), 143, no. 1177, p. 232
• David Franklin, The Art of Parmigianino, Yale University Press and National Gallery of Canada (New Haven and London, 2003), pp. 38-39
• Achim Gnann, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, M. Imhof (Petersberg, 2007), cat. no. 201, repr., p. 89
• Paul Joannides, "A Bolognese Project by the Young Parmigianino" (Autumn 2008), XLVI, no. 3, pp. 353-366, p. 363, notes 29-31, fig. 20

Exhibition History

• Correggio and Parmigianino: Master Draughtsmen of the Renaissance, British Museum, London, 10/06/2000 - 01/07/2001; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/05/2001 - 05/06/2001

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