Part of a large album, consisting mostly of studies of hands and arms by various masters, that was broken up while in the Albterina and passed through the hands of J. C. Wawra Gallery, Vienna. The album was later declared the property of the Archduke Friedrich of Hapsburg, who sold the individual sheets.
Once attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Formerly attributed to Antonio Mini, d. 1533 France; also Giovanni Battista Franco, called Il Semolei, Venice 1510?-1561 Venice. Possibly attributed to Baldassare Peruzzi, Ancaiano, near Siena 1481-1536 Rome.
Inscribed on verso, in pen and brown ink, "foronsini(?) / arasonuto(?).... Gilmani / montano /..."; in black chalk, "Parmigianino".
Watermark: Anchor in a circle, fragment (Briquet 473: Venice, 1505).
Mini, Antonio, approximately 1500-1533, Formerly attributed to.
Franco, Battista, 1510?-1561, Formerly attributed to.
Habsburg, Frederick, 1856-1936, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 361.
Drawings from Tuscany and Umbria, 1350-1700. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley. Berkeley : Gillick, 1961, no. 50.
Milwaukee, 1964, no. 25.