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Woman Delousing a Child
by Parmigianino
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower center on mount, in pen and brown ink (in J. Richardson, Sr.'s hand): "Parmeggiano"; lower right, in pen and brown ink (in J. Richardson, Sr.'s hand): "k. 241 (Lansdowne Ms 802)"
Provenance
Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714), Milan (see Lugt 2992 and Lugt 2993); Monsignor Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, Bishop of Arezzo (died 1704), Arezzo (see Lugt 2911); bequeathed to Cavaliere Orzaio Marchetti da Pistoia, his nephew; sold probably through John Talman (died 1726), Hinkworth, Hertfordshire (see Lugt 2462) in 1710 to John, Lord Somers, script (Lugt 2981) recto, lower right and lower center on mount, in pen and brown ink; sold, London, Motteux, May 16, 1717; Earl Spencer [stamp (Lugt 1531), recto, lower right, in black]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, August 6-7, 1914, part of lot 439, as "Parmeggiano," to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from the Art Institute," 1979-1980, pp. 28-29, no. 14, pl. 19, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also 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.
Publications
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. 169-70, no. 218 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Parmigianino / Italian, 1503-1540
- Date
- 1524/27
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper with blue fibers, laid down on ivory wove card
- Dimensions
- 9.8 × 7.2 cm (3 7/8 × 2 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.851
More by Parmigianino in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00003547
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