drawing
- Museum number
- 1848,1125.13
- Description
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Five studies of a nude figure of Fortitude supporting a column
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1530-1540 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 191 millimetres
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Width: 130 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The related Louvre drawing is Popham 1971, no. 416, pl. 405 and Gnann no. 428
Lit.: A.E. Popham, 'Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino', New Haven and London, 1971, I, no. 253, pl. 405; A. Gnann, 'Parmigianino, Die Zeichnung', Petersberg, 2007, no. 429 (where dated 1524-6)
Popham 1967
A drawing of a single figure of 'Fortitude' with a sleeping lion is in the Louvre (6437 bis: photo. Gernsheim 6974; Quintavalle, 'Bertoja', fig. 30). This has recently been given to Bertoja by Signora Quintavalle, but in my opinion the traditional attribution to Parmigianino is correct: it seems to belong to about the same period as 1848,1125.13 and may have been made in the same connection. In style 1848,1125.13 may also be compared with the sheet of studies for the 'Moses' and 'Eve' of the Steccata formerly in the Ingram Collection and now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (62.135 ; Popham, 'Parmigianino', pls. lvi, lvii).
Literature: Quintavalle, p. 200.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1848
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1848,1125.13
