Attributed to Parmigianino

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Attributed to Parmigianino
1503-1540
Three Women Carrying Vessels
ca. 1526-1527
Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on paper.
9 1/8 x 8 inches (233 x 204 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1993.378

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Watermark: none.

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Inscribed on mount, at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Parmens"; in lower right corner, "No. 3"; on verso of lining, in pen and brown ink, "f(?)/ 0 (a fraction)".

Provenance: 
Armand Francois Louis de Mestral de Saint-Saphorin (1738-1805), Switzerland and Vienna; purchased in Aubonne in 1975 by Janos Scholz (1903-1993), New York (no mark; see Lugt 2933b).
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Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Selected references: Scholz 1976, 14, no. 35 (as Parmigianino); Notre Dame 1980, no. 143; Muzii 1994, 299; Gnann 2007,1 : 434, no. 529.

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