Lot 221
  • 221

Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, called Parmigianino

Estimate
22,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, called Parmigianino
  • Head of an elderly woman wearing a wimple
  • Pen and brown ink and black chalk

Provenance

Possibly Jean-Baptiste Séroux d'Agincourt, Rome;
possibly puchased in 1790 by Willem Anne Lestervenon;
Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meryan, Marquis de Lagoy (L.1710, almost effaced);
Charles Ferdinand Louis, Marquis de Valori-Rustichelli (L.2500) fragment of his mark lower left;
A. Finot (L.3627);
with P. and D. Colnaghi & Co., New York and London,  An Exhibition of Master Drawings, 1992, no. 4, reproduced;
with P. and D. Colnaghi & Co., New York and London, An Exhibition of Master Drawings, 1999, no. 3, reproduced

Literature

D. Ekserdjian, 'Unpublished drawings by Parmigianino', Apollo, August 1999, p. 39, no. 74; reproduced p. 40, fig. 94;
S. Béguin, M. Di Giampaolo, M. Vaccaro, Parmigianino, The Drawings, Turin/London 2000, no. 35;
A. Gnann, Parmigianino, Die Zeichnungen, Petersberg 2007, vol. I, p. 423, no. 468, reproduced vol. II, p. 373

Condition

Made up, top left corner. Small tear, lower right corner. Slightly foxed and soiled towards the margin. Pen and ink good and fresh. Remains of old paper stuck to verso around all four edges. Sold in an antique, carved and gilded frame.
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Catalogue Note

The image of the present drawing was known to Popham from a seventeenth-century copy which he identified in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.1  In his entry on the Windsor drawing, Popham referred to yet another copy in the Biblioteca Reale, Turin.As David Ekserdjian pointed out (see Literature), on the basis of the style of the two copies known to him, Popham dated this work to Parmigianino's second Parmese period, 1530/31-1540.   Achim Gnann has instead proposed an earlier dating to Parmigianino's Roman period, 1524-1526.

For information on the collector Finot see: L. Lhinares, 'Ce cher docteur Finot', Les marques de collections. I., Actes des cinquièmes Rencontres internationales du Salon du dessin, Paris 24-25 mars 2010, ed. P. Fuhring and C. Hattori, Paris 2010, pp. 135-143.   

1.  A. E. Popham, Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, New Haven and London, 1971, vol. I, p. 241, no. O.C.43, reproduced vol. III, pl. 421
2.  A. Bertini, I disegni italiani della Biblioteca Reale di Torino, Rome 1958, pp. 43-44, no. 310, reproduced fig. 310 (as after Parmigianino)