drawing
- Museum number
- Pp,2.130
- Description
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An angel with raised arms, in profile to right
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (discoloured), on buff paper
- Production date
- 1530-1540 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 136 millimetres
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Width: 108 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Facsimile engraving in reverse by C.M. Metz ('Imitations of Ancient and Modern Drawings', London, 1789 and 1798) when in the Reynolds Collection (Weigel 5415; BM impression 1855,0609.933). Mary Vaccaro suggests that this might be by Bedoli rather than Parmigianino.
Lit.: A.E. Popham, 'Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino', New Haven and London, 1971, I, no. 222, pl. 262; A. Gnann, 'Parmigianino, Die Zeichnung', Petersberg, 2007, no. 408 (where dated 1524-6)
Popham 1967
The drawing seems to date from the Bolognese period or later.
Literature: Richardson, Traité de la Peinture, Amsterdam, 1728, p. 65.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Pp,2.130
