About This Artwork

Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino
Italian, 1503-1540

Group of Nine Standing Figures, 1524/1527

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid card
124 x 131 mm (max.)
Inscribed verso on mount, at left, in pen and brown ink (in A.M. Zanetti's hand): 'e La stampa intagliata all'acqua / forte in Londra da Enrico Vander / Borcht da [questo] disegno, che era di / quelli dello studio famoso del X. Conte ' d'Arondell Inglese"; at center left, in graphite: "Parmigianino"; at lower left, in graphite: "S. Woodburn"
Margaret Day Blake Collection, 1978.275

McCullagh & Giles 217

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from the Art Institute," 1979-1980, cat. 16, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art, cat. 16, pl. 22.

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

Publication History

Arthur E. Popham, Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, I (New Haven, 1971), no. 94.

Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2B4.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1997), no. 217 (ill.).

Mario Di Giampaolo and Mary Vaccaro, The Drawings of Parmigiano (2000).

Antonio Maria Zanetti, Raccolta di Varie Stampe a Chiaroscuro Trattate dai Disegni Originali di Francesco Mazzuola, Detto Il Parmigianino e d'Altri Insigni Autori da Anton Maria Zanetti, O. in Gir che gli stessi disegni possiede (Venice, 1749).

Adam Bartsch, Le Peintre Graveur, vol. 12 (Vienna, 1811).

Ludovico Inig, Disegni Originali di Francesco Mazzola Parte della Famosa Raccolta del Sig. Co. d'Arondell, ora Pre de Non (Denon) (Bologna, n.d.).

Baron Dominique Vivant Denon, Monument des Arts du Dessin, vol. 3 (Paris, 1829).

Rudolph Weigel, Die Werke Der Maler in Ihren Handzeichnungen (Leipzig, 1865).

Caroline Karpinski, Illustrated Bartsch 48, Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcuts, vol. 12 (University Park, Pa., and London, 1971).

Ownership History

Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (died 1646), England [inscription on mount]; bequeathed to his wife, Countess of Arundel, 1646-1654 [McCullagh and Giles 1997]; by descent to her son, William Howard, Lord Stratford, Tart Hall, London, to 1680; sold by his estate, Tart Hall (Stratford House), London, 1720 [McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Antonio Maria Zanetti (died 1757), Venice [Lugt Suppl. 2992f]; by descent through three generations of the Zanetti family [Lugt Suppl. 2992]; sold by the Zanetti family to Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon (died 1825), Paris, in 1789 [Lugt 779; McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Samuel Woodburn (died 1853), London [Lugt 2584; inscription]; sold, London, June 12-14, 1860. Charles Sackville Bale (died 1880), London, [Lugt 640]; sold, Christie's, London, June 10, 1881, Bale sale, lot 2397, as "A Group of Seven Figures," to Riggale [annotated sales catalogue]. Sold, Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, June 26, 1946, lot 862A. Sold by P. & D. Colnaghi and Company, London, to the Art Institute, 1978.