About This Artwork

Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino, follower of
Italian, 1503-1540

Marriage of the Virgin, c. 1575

Pen and brown ink with brush and blue wash, corrected with touches of lead white (partially oxidized), over black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory wove card
269 x 422 mm
Inscribed recto, lower left on mount, in graphite (in John Skippe's hand?): "parmigianino"
Restricted gift of Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt, 1976.56

McCullagh & Giles 228

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Yvonne Tan Bunzl, 1975, cat. 7.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 50, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art.

Kansas City, Mo., Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, "Three Centuries of Roman Drawings from The Villa Farnesina, Rome;" traveled to Sarasota, Fla., the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; and Pittsburgh, Pa., the Frick Art & Historical Center, 1993.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

Publication History

Arthur Ewart Popham, Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, I (New Haven, 1971), p. 166.

Harold Joachim, Italian drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), no. 4A4.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), no. 228 (ill.).

Ownership History

John Skippe (died 1811); by descent to his sister, Penelope Martin [London 1958]; by descent to her son, early 19th century [London 1958]; Martin family descendents; by descent to Edward Holland (died 1916) [London 1958]; by descent to his sister, Mrs. Rayner-Wood [London 1958]; by descent to her nephew, Edward Holland-Martin [London 1958]; sold, Christie's, London, November 20-21, 1958, lot. 146a, to Colnaghi [annotated sale catalogue]. John Brophy [Joachim 1979]. Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London, 1975 [Joachim 1979]. Sold by the Paul Drey Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1976.