Studies of a Male Torso, c. 1524

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on gray-blue paper

Dimensions

overall: 25.7 x 20.3 cm (10 1/8 x 8 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Accession Number

1978.52.1

Artists / Makers

Italian 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

by Parmigianino?, at lower left in brown ink (on the cross-section of the sculpture): p[er] ch[é] dann'amore facto o mai/sì certo qual manifesta c[os]/tanza né può senza/tentar; at lower right: san[?] pena [several words crossed out]/cori parole scolto diSscer eo; at bottom right in another hand: Angelo

Provenance

Mrs. E. E. James (sale, Sotheby's, London, 16 May 1962, no. 161, as B. Bandinelli); bought by Williams; (Hans Calmann, London, by 1965); David Daniels, New York, 1965 (sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 April 1978, no. 16, as Anonymous Florentine, 16th Century); NGA purchase via David Tunick, New York, 1978.

Associated Names

Calmann, Hans M.
Daniels, David
Sotheby's, London
Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

1974: Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings: Form and Function, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1974, no. 10 (as attributed to Benvenuto Cellini)(cat. by Edmund Pillsbury and John Caldwell).

1983: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., September 1983.

1988: Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

2000: Correggio and Parmigianino, Master Draughtsmen of the Renaissance, British Museum, London, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000-2001, no. 52 (as Parmigianino)(entry by Martin Clayton).

2014: Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors' Drawings from Renaissance Italy, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2014-2015, 183-185, no. 22 (color) (as Italian, 16th Century [Raffaello da Montelupo?]) (entry by Linda Wolk-Simon).

Bibliography

2001: Ekserdjian, David. "Parmigianino and the Antique." Apollo (July 2001): 44, fig. 6.

2002: Turner, Nicholas. "Le periferie del corpus graphicum del Parmigianino. Problemi di attribuzioni incerte fra gli specialisti." In Parmigianino e il manierismo europeo. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi. Parma, 13-15 giugno 2002, a cura di L. Fornari Schianchi. Milan, 2002: 229-231, fig. 4 (as Jacopo di Giovanni di Francesco, called Jacone).

2002: Vaccaro, Mary. Review of "Correggio and Parmigianino. Master Draftsmen of the Renaissance." Master Drawings 40, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 259 (as Parmigianino).

2004: Thimann, Michael. "Jüngere literatur zur Parmigianino. Ein Forschungsbericht." Journal für Kunstgeschichte 8, no. 3 (2004): 234.

2007: Gnann, Achim. Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen. Petersberg, 2007, 1: 405, no. 336; 2: 285, repro. (as Parmigianino).