Attributed to Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli

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Attributed to Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli

approximately 1500-1569

Design for Decoration of a Wall above a Fireplace and Two Doors, with Figures in a Garden (Garden of Love?)

Pen and dark brown ink, light brown wash, over black chalk and stylus indentations, on textured, light brown paper. Laid down on Richardson Senior (?) mount.

6 9/16 x 10 7/8 inches (166 x 273 mm)

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

IV, 49

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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly attributed to Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Viadana ca. 1500-1569 Parma.

Inscription:

Inscribed on mount, at lower center, beneath drawing, in pen and brown ink, "Girolamo Mazzuoli"; above this, in graphite, "Parmegianino"; on verso of mount, in pen and brown ink, by Richardson or an amanuensis, "Girolamo Mazzuoli was either Brother or Cozin of Francesco, & painted with him, / & finished what He left of the Church of the Virgin of the Steccata at Parma, / after his Death, of which the Present Drawing is One Study, in order to unite with / so many Others of the "Same Form."; on verso of mount, in lower right corner, in red chalk, "745".

Provenance:

Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (1665-1745), London (Lugt 2183, lower center, R stamp); 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:

Parmigianino, 1503-1540, Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, 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:

Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 49 (as Parmigianino).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 49, repr. (as Parmigianino)

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