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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Old Shepherd Leaning on a Staff
    Parmigianino. Old Shepherd Leaning on a Staff, 1524/31. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00003051

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    Old Shepherd Leaning on a Staff

    by Parmigianino

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed recto, upper left, in pen and brown ink: "uom si vive [?]"; inscribed verso, upper center, in pen and brown ink: "70"

    Provenance

    Cavaliere Francesco Baiardo (died 1561); bequeathed to his grandson, Marcantonio Cavalca. Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1585-1646), London; sold, London, Tart Hall (Stafford House), 1720, to Gerhard Michael Jabach; sold, Paris, 1721 to Count Antonio Maria Zanetti (see Lugt 2992f). Giovanni Antonio Armano. E. Bouverie [stamp (Lugt 325), recto, lower right, in black]. Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 15, pl. 20, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also travelled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking 1400-1850", March 15 - June 1, 2025, p. 67, 70, 211, fig. 55 (ill.), cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, Edina Adam, et. al.

    Publications

    Arthur E. Popham, "Parmigianino as a Landscape Draughtsman," Art Quarterly 20 (1957), pp. 275-86. Bertha H. Wiles, “Two Parmigianino Drawings from the Aeneid,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 1 (1966), pp. 96-111, fig. 6, as The Old Shepherd. Arthur E. Popham, "The Baiardo Inventory," in Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art Presented to Anthony Blunt (London and New York, 1967), pp. 26-29. 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. 171, no. 220 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino / Italian, 1503-1540
    Date
    1524/31
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on paper
    Dimensions
    14.1 × 11.8 cm (5 9/16 × 4 11/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    ink with wash
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard E. Danielson
    Accession no.
    1927.7752

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