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Parmigianino

1503-1540

Virgin Holding the Dead Christ on Her Lap

1524-1525

Pen and brown ink, gray wash, with red chalk, over black chalk, on paper.

11 7/16 x 8 1/2 inches (290 x 214 mm)

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

I, 47

Notes:

Watermark: cock? with three tail feathers and crown.
The drawing is based on Michelangelo's marble "Pieta", ca. 1499, St. Peter's, Rome.

Inscription:

Inscribed in lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, "107".

Provenance:

Franc̜ois Alziari, Baron de Malaussena (Lugt 1887); 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:

Alziari, Franc̜ois, Baron de Malaussena, 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. 79.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: no. 47; Copertini 1932, 55n27; Popham 1971, 1: no. 311; Mantua and Vienna 1999, under no. 246; Gnann 2000, 52. London and New York 2000-2001, no. 59; Chiusa 2001, 213; Fornari Schianchi 2002, 313; Ekserdjian 2003, 58; Parma and Vienna 2003, 39; Ekserdjian 2006, 28; Gnann 2007, 1: no. 226.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 47.

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