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Parmigianino
1503-1540
Group of Four Figures, Three-Quarter Length. Verso: Two Sketches of the Head of a Woman Turned to the Left, Seen from the Back
ca. 1526
Pen and brown ink, over red chalk, on paper; verso: pen and brown ink, over black chalk.
3 1/4 x 2 7/8 inches (83 x 74 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 46a
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Watermark: none.
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Inscribed on verso, at upper left, in graphite, "1679".
Provenance:
Sir Charles Greville (1763-1832; English officer, Lugt 549); George Guy Greville, fourth Earl of Warwick (1818-1893; Lugt 2600); possibly his sale, Christie's, London, 21 May 1896, lot 259, one of three drawings, as Parmegiano "The Virgin and Child with St. John - black chalk and sepia; and two pen and ink sketches"; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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Selected references: Popham 1971, 1: 121, no. 304; Jaffé 1994(a), 244, no. 677; Gnann 1996, 362; Gnann 2000, 70; Gnann 2007, 1: 412, no. 396.
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