drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1905,1110.28
- Description
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Four half-length figures in an Entombment, study for a print
Pen and brown ink
Verso: A group of three heads
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1526-1527 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 124 millimetres
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Width: 113 millimetres (irregular)
- Curator's comments
- Lit.: A.E. Popham, 'Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino', New Haven and London, 1971, I, no. 178, pl. 166; A. Gnann, 'Parmigianino, Die Zeichnung', Petersberg, 2007, p. 113, no. 250
Popham 1967
The drawing is in all probability a discarded study for part of the group of half-length figures in the right background of Parmigianino's etching of the 'Entombment' (B. XVI, p. 8, 5), the figure in the foreground being the Virgin and the one immediately to her right, wearing a halo, St. John the Evangelist.
On the verso (not illustrated) are rough pen sketches of a group of three heads, two of them bearded, and the head and shoulders of a bearded man (partly cut away). The right-hand head of the group resembles the corresponding head of the three in the background of the etching, while the head and shoulders could be those of the figure supporting the body in the left foreground.
Literature: Quintavalle, p. 198.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Acquisition notes
- For a note on the acquisition history, see 1905,1110.11.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1905,1110.28
