Esther before Ahasuerus or Solomon and Sheba with Cross from Wood of Adam's Tomb

Prints and Drawings

1590/1600

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Follower of Parmigianino
Title: Esther before Ahasuerus or Solomon and Sheba with Cross from Wood of Adam's Tomb
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1590–1600
Medium: Pen and brush and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower left on mount, in pen and brown ink: "884"; upper right on mount, in pen and brown ink: "L.2"; lower left on mount, in graphite: "Parmigianino"
Dimensions: 11 × 17.1 cm (4 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.2552
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Mary Newcome, “The Drawings of Valerio Castello,” Master Drawings 13 (1975), pp. 26-40.
Joachim Harold and Susanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), p. 54, no. 2B11 (as Giovanni Battista Naldini [?], Rebecca at the Well [?]).
Martin Royalton-Kisch, “New Works by Valerio Castello,” Master Drawings 20 (1982), pp. 132-35.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 178-79, no. 232 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.

Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Jan. 29, 1915, lot 227, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].

McCullagh & Giles 232

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