drawing
- Museum number
- 1905,1110.38
- Description
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Head of a bearded man in profile to right
Red chalk
Verso: Fragment of a composition of St Jerome in his Study, showing part of the saint
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1518-1540
- Dimensions
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Height: 44 millimetres
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Width: 37 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- One of six drawings for this composition in the BM (See 1905,1110.36-38; 1905,1110.40; 1946,0713.441* and 1905,1110.44), for a list of other connected drawings see 1905,1110.8. The recto is an attentive study for the head of Daniel (See 1905,1110.37). 1905,1110.40 and 1905,1110.38 were part of the same sheet; the fragments of the verso, when joined together, show part of a composition known in its complete form from a copy (1940,0413.60).
See Popham, 'Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino', Cambridge, 1971, No.238.
Popham 1967
Alternative studies for the head of Daniel in the lions' den (see 1905,1110.36). 1905,1110.40 and 1905,1110.38 were part of the same sheet: the fragments on the verso, when joined together, show part of a composition known in its complete form from a copy (1940,0413.60).
Literature: Quintavalle, p. 200; Emilian Drawings, p. 51 (d); Popham, Parmigianino, under pl. xlvb).
- 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
- 1905,1110.38