Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• prints and drawings • European
art
*Work
Type [link]: •
drawing • preparatory drawing
*Title: Group
of Nine Standing Figures
*Creator
Display: Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540)
*Role
[link]: draftsman [link]: Parmigianino
*Creation
Date: mid 1520s [controlled]: •
Earliest: 1523 • Latest: 1527
*Subject
[links]: • human figures •
religion and mythology • Marriage of
the Virgin (Christian iconography) •
apostles • drapery
Style [link to
authority]: Mannerist
Culture [link]: Italian
*Current
Location [link]: Art
Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, USA) •
ID: 1978.275
*Measurements:
12.4 x 13.1 cm (4 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches)
[controlled] • Value: 12.4
Unit: cm Type: height
| • Value: 13.1
Unit: cm Type: width
*Materials
and Techniques: pen and brown ink,
and brush and brown wash, on tan laid paper, laid
down on tan laid card
Material [links]:
• ink • wash • laid paper
Technique/Implement
[link]: • lining (process) •
pen • brush
Inscriptions: inscribed
verso on mount, at left, in pen and brown ink (by.
A. M. Zanetti): e La stampa intagliata all'acqua
/ forte in Londra da Enrico Vander / Borcht da [questo]
disegno, che era di / quelli dello studio famoso
del S. Conte / d'Arondell Inglese; at center left,
in graphite: Parmigianino; at lower left, in graphite:
S. Woodburn
Description: This
drawing may have been a preparatory study for several
figures and drapery for a religious composition,
possibly for a Marriage of the Virgin. It was used
by Hendrik van der Borcht the younger in an etching
of six standing apostles.
Description Sources
[link]: Italian
Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of
Chicago: A Catalog of the Collection. Folds
McCullagh, Suzanne, and Laura M. Giles. Princeton,
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993. Page:
92 ff.
Related Work:
Relationship Type
[controlled]: model for
[link to
Work Record]: Hendrik van der Borcht the younger
(Dutch, 1614-ca.1690);
etching; Six Apostles Standing; 1636/1646
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