Parmigianino

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Parmigianino
1503-1540
Interior of a Painter's Studio or Academy
ca. 1530-1540
Pen and brown ink on paper; framing lines in pen and black ink.
5 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches (141 x 125 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 46
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Watermark: none.

Inscription: 

Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "parmesan".

Provenance: 
Unidentified collector (blind stamp at lower center); Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830; Lugt 2445); 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.
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Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, 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. 80.
Selected references: Fairfax-Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 46; Copertini 1953, 122; Popham 1953, 43; New York 1965- 66, no. 95; Fagiolo dell'Arco 1970, 74; Popham 1971, under no. 252, and no. 321; Cleveland 1981, 9; Washington and Parma 1984, no. 54; London and New York 2000-2001, no. 118; Gnann 2007, 1: no. 878; Munich 2008-9, no. 15; Paris 2015-16, 37.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 46, 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, pp. 60-61, no. 95, repr.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 15, repr. [Rhoda Eitel-Porter]

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