Parmigianino

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Parmigianino

1503-1540

Three Studies of Putti. Verso: Diana and Actaeon

ca. 1523-1524

Pen and brown ink and wash, over red chalk, on paper; squared in lead point; verso: black and red chalk.

6 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (157 x 156 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

I, 49

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Watermark: none.
Studies for the fresco decoration of the vault in the Camera della Stufetta, in the Rocca of Fontanellato, near Parma, ca. 1523-24.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso of mount into which drawing is laid, lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Parmegiano"; various numbers in pencil.

Provenance:

Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (1585-1646; no mark; see Lugt 508); Nicola Francesco Haym, London (1679-1729; Lugt 1970); the Earls of Spencer, Althorp House, Northamptonshire (Lugt 1530); Spencer sale, T. Philipe, London, 14 June 1811, lot 535; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased in London in 1910 by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1909; no mark; see Lugt 1509), New York; J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Arundel, Thomas Howard, Earl of, 1585-1646, former owner.
Haym, Nicola Francesco, former owner.
Spencer, Earl of, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 78.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: no. 49; Copertini 1932, 1:48, 56n27; Frölich-Bum 1935, 56-57; Northampton 1941, no. 39; Tolnay 1943, 121, no. 100; Quintavalle 1948, 150, 181, 199; Popham 1949, 176; Freedberg 1950, 162n44, 164; Popham 1953, 4-5, 24-25, 55; Hartford 1960, no. 69; Popham 1963, 3, 5-6, 10n14; New York 1965-66, 57-58, no. 88; Popham 1967, 40; Quintavalle 1968, 91; Popham 1971, 1:3-5, 123, no. 313; New York 1981, no. 20; Béguin, Di Giampaolo, and Vaccaro 2000, 70; London and New York 2000-2001, no. 46; Chiusa 2001, 51-52; Vaccaro 2002, 144-45; Florence 2003, 10; Ottawa and New York 2003-4, 33, 83; Kliemann and Rohlmann 2004, 270-72; Ekserdjian 2006, 94; New York 2006, no. 15; Gnann 2007, 15, 70, no. 119; Paris 2015-16, 78n9; Rome 2016, no. 61.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 49, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, no. 88.
Denison, Cara D., and Helen B. Mules, with the assistance of Jane V. Shoaf. European Drawings, 1375-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, no. 20.
In August Company : The Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, p. 281, no. 7, repr.
From Leonardo to Pollock: Master drawings from the Morgan Library. New York: Morgan Library, 2006, cat. no. 15, p. 34-37.

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