Female Heads

Prints and Drawings

1535/40

Attributed to Parmigianino
Italian, 1503-1540

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Parmigianino
Title: Female Heads
Date: 1535–1540
Medium: Pen and brown ink with traces of black chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, tipped onto board
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right on mount, in graphite: "Parmigianino"; inscribed verso, lower left on mount, in pen and brown ink: "1847. Dr. Cramers Sale. Oxford / .i."
Dimensions: 108 × 88 mm
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.848
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Joachim Harold and Susanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 53-54, no. 2B10.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 174, no. 225 (ill.).

Rev. John Anthony Cramer, DD. (1793-1848), Oxford [according to inscription verso, lower left on mount, in pen and brown ink]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Feb. 11, 1850, possibly lot 74 or 76 (as Parmigianino). Frederick R. Aikman; sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Mar. 14, 1913, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center, and verso, center on mount, in black].

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