Two Standing Draped Figures (Saint John and the Magdalene?)

sold probably through John Talman (died. 1726), Hinkworth, Herfordshire (see Lugt 2462) in 1710 to John, Lord Somers [script (Lugt 2981) verso, upper center on mount, in pen and black ink]

bequeathed to his nephew, Cavaliere Orazio Marchetti da Pistoia

William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamps (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, and verso, center on mount, in black]

given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center of mount, in black].

sold, Sotheby's, June 5-6, 1913, part of lot 299 (as "Parmegiano [sic] from B. West Collection"), to Maggs Bros., London

sold, London, Sotheby's, May 11, 1836, part of lot 40 (as "Parmiggiano [xic]), STUDIES FOR THE FIGURES OF ST. JOHN AND THE MAGDALEN, from collections of Richardson and West") to Oliver. Hoarace Stone Wilcocks, Plymouth, England

his sale, London, Motteux, May 16, 1717. John Richardson, Sr. [stamp (Lugt 2183) recto, lower right, in black (faded), and script verso, upper center on mount, in pen and brown ink]. Benjamin West [dry stamp (Lugt 419) recto, lower center]

Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714) Milan (see Lugt 2992 and Lugt Suppl. 2993). Monsignor Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, Bishop of Arezzo (died 1704), Arezzo (see Lugt 2911)

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. 111, no. 141 (ill.).

Catherine Monbeig Goguel, "Drawings by Battista Franco in the Louvre," Burlington Magazine 127 (1985), pp. 780-85.