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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.316
People
Parmigianino, Italian (Parma, Italy 1503 - 1540 Casalmaggiore, Italy)
Title
Two Figures
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Parma
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298655

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on buff antique laid paper, laid down
Dimensions
15.1 x 8.8 cm (5 15/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: None
  • collector's mark: l.l. corner, black ink: L. 779 (Baron D. Vivant-Denon)
  • blind stamp: l.r. corner: Forest [no more details known]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Baron D. Vivant-Denon, Paris (Lugt 779). Forest (his blind stamp, lower right corner).
Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.316
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 139, p. 81, as copy after Parmigianino
  • Arthur E. Popham and Johannes Wilde, The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, Phaidon Press (London, 1949), under cat. no. 653
  • Arthur E. Popham, Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1971), no. 52, pl. 412
  • Achim Gnann, "Parmigianinos Projekte für die Cesi-Kapelle in S. Maria della Pace in Rom", Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte (1996), 59, p. 364 note 12
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella II")
  • Achim Gnann, "Per una cronologia dei disegni romani di Parmigianino", Quaderni di Palazzo Te (2000), no. 7, p. 70 note 64
  • Achim Gnann, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, M. Imhof (Petersberg, 2007), cat. no. 392, repr.

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