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Sketch of Left Hand and Wrist
by Parmigianino
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower center, in pen and red ink (in J. Richardson, Sr.'s hand): "Parmeggiano"; verso, upper center on mount, in pen and brown ink (in J. Richardson, Sr.'s hand): "Q 39. / Ze.11. / a"
Provenance
Peter Lely [stamp (Lugt 2092), recto, lower right, in black]. J. Richardson, Sr. [stamp (Lugt 2183) recto, lower right, in black and inscriptions recto, in pen and red ink, and verso, in pen and brown ink]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Jan. 29, 1915, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, 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].
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. 172, no. 222 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino / Italian, 1503-1540
- Date
- 1535/40
- Medium
- Red chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 6.8 × 10.5 cm (2 11/16 × 4 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.858
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-00003549
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