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Page Serving Wine or The Painter's Apprentice
by Parmigianino
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, lower center on mount, in pen and black ink (in "Gurley" hand): "Federigo Zuccaro. / 1543 - 1609"
Provenance
Comte Moriz von Fries [embossed stamp (Lugt 2903) recto, lower left]. Dr. [J.B.] Ridley, Croydon, England; sold, Sotheby's, London, April 2, 1912, part of lot 223, as "F. Zucchero", to Maggs Bros., London. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right 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 of Chicago," Dec. 1979-Mar. 1980, cat. 17, pl. 21, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.
Publications
Karl T. Parker and Jacques Mathey, Antoine Watteau: Catalogue Complet de son Oeuvre Dessiné, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1956). Arthur Ewart Popham, Catalogue of the drawings of Parmigianino (New Haven, 1971), vol. 1, p. 60, no. 58 and vol. 3, pl. 441 (as "Parmigianino, a Youth, Senn from the Back, Standing in Front of a Pedestal, on which stand Three ewers and a Glass"). Joachim Harold and Susanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), p. 31, no. 17, pl. 21 and pp. 52-53, no. 2B8. E. James Mundy, "A Long Lost Parmigianino Drawing Rediscovered," Master Drawings 29 (1981), pp. 15-17. Diane De Grazia, "Correggion and his Legacy: Further Observations," Master Drawings 23-24 (1986), pp. 199-204. Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 171-72, no. 221 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino / Italian, 1503-1540
- Date
- 1530/40
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper, laid down on cream board
- Dimensions
- 17.3 × 11.5 cm (6 13/16 × 4 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.1054
More by Parmigianino in museum collections
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