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Group of Nine Standing Figures
by Parmigianino
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso on mount, at left, in pen and brown ink (in A.M. Zanetti's hand): "e La stampa intagliata all'acqua / forte in Londra da Enrico Vander / Borcht da [questo] disegno, che era di / quelli dello studio famoso del Sr. Conte ' d'Arondell Inglese"; at center left, in graphite: "Parmigianino"; at lower left, in graphite: "S. Woodburn"
Provenance
Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (1585-1646), England [inscription on mount]; by descent to his wife, Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel (1585-1654) [McCullagh and Giles 1997]; by descent to her son, William Howard, Lord Stratford (1614-1680), Tart Hall, London; sold by his estate, Tart Hall (Stratford House), London, 1720 [McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Antonio Maria Zanetti (1680-1757), Venice [script (Lugt 2992f), verso, lower center on mount, in pen and brown ink]; by descent through three generations of the Zanetti family [Lugt 2992]; sold by the Zanetti family to Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon (1747-1825), Paris, in 1789 [stamp, (Lugt 779), recto, lower right, in black; McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Samuel Woodburn (1786-1853), London [see Lugt 2584; inscription]; sold, Christie's, London, June 12-14, 1860. Charles Sackville Bale (1791-1880), London, [stamp (Lugt 640), verso, lower center on mount, in black]; sold, Christie's, London, June 10, 1881, lot 2397, as "A Group of Seven Figures," to Riggale [annotated sales catalogue]. Sold, Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, June 26, 1946, lot 862A. Sold by P. & D. Colnaghi and Company, London, to the Art Institute, 1978.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from the Art Institute," 1979-1980, pp. 29-30, cat. 16, pl. 22, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997. Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," Nov. 1, 2014-Feb. 1, 2015. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking 1400-1850", March 15 - June 1, 2025, p, 72, 98, 113n17, 211, fig. 57 (ill.), cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, Edina Adam, et. al.
Publications
Antonio Maria Zanetti, Raccolta di Varie Stampe a Chiaroscuro Trattate dai Disegni Originali di Francesco Mazzuola, Detto Il Parmigianino e d'Altri Insigni Autori da Anton Maria Zanetti, O. in Gir che gli stessi disegni possiede (Venice, 1749). Arthur E. Popham, Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, I (New Haven, 1971), vol 1, p. 257, no. 94, vol. 2, pl. 202. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), p. 50, no. 2B4. Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 168-69, no. 217 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino / Italian, 1503-1540
- Date
- 1524/27
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid card
- Dimensions
- 12.4 × 13.1 cm (4 15/16 × 5 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink and wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Collection
- Accession no.
- 1978.275
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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