- Museum number
- 1854,0628.99
- Description
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The Virgin and Child, the Christ Child looking up and touching her face
Pen and brown ink, brown wash
- Production date
- 1504-1538
- Dimensions
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Height: 83 millimetres
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Width: 57 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a group of drawings previously given to Bernardino Gatti which Konrad Oberhuber convincingly reattributed to another pupil of Correggio, Giorgio Gandini, because some of them are related to his painting of the 'Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine' in the collection of the Earl of Yarborough. Further drawings by Gandini are listed by Degrazia in the 1984 Washington catalogue and by Andrea Muzzi in an essay in 'Parmigianino e la Scuola di Parma, Atti del Convegno Casalmaggiore e Viadana 5 Aprile 2003', Viadana, 2004, pp. 29-36.
Lit:. G. Waagen, 'Treasures of Art in Great Britain, Supplement', London, 1857, p. 32 (as Correggio, wronly described as on parchment); A.E. Popham, 'Correggio's Drawings', London, 1957, no. A46, p. 180 (as Gatti); A.E. Popham, 'Italian Drawings in the BM, artists working in Parma', London, 1967, no. 32 (as Gatti); K. Oberhuber, review of Popham 1967 in "Master Drawings", VIII, Autumn 1970, p. 282 (as Gandini); D. Degrazia, in exhib. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art and Parma, Galleria Nazionale, 'Correggio and His Legacy', 1984, pp. 185-6, n. 11; F. Frucco, 'Per Gandini disegnatore', in V. Romani (ed.), 'Studi sul disegno Padano del Rinascimento', Verona, 2010, no. 6, p. 168, fig. 7 (with further literature)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1854
- Acquisition notes
- 1854,0628.81 to 117 were purchased from Tiffin and the register records that they were all drawings that he had bought on his own account at the Woodburn sale. The Bill Book gives prices and agrees that all of them came from the Woodburn sale. Neither source gives the lot numbers. These have been added to the records when they are obvious. The small dimensions of the drawings 1854,0628.89 to 110 and their shared English provenance of Lely and/or Richardson would suggest that they come from a common source, perhaps lot 1550 in the Woodburn sale 23 June 1854 ('A scrap-book, containing a numerous collection of small Italian studies' bought bt Tiffin £3-15-0).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1854,0628.99
