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Lower Half of a Kneeling Figure Turned to the Left. Verso: Fragment of a Drapery Study?

After Parmigianino
1503-1540

Lower Half of a Kneeling Figure Turned to the Left. Verso: Fragment of a Drapery Study?

1530-1540
6 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches (157 x 237 mm)
Black chalk on paper; verso: black chalk.
1989.69

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
After Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, called Il Parmigianino, Parma 1503-1540 Casalmaggiore.
After figure of St. Margaret from Parmigianino's "Virgin and Child with Saints", ca. 1529, in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna.
Description

The present drawing copies the lower half of the figure of Saint Margaret in Parmigianino’s painting of the Virgin and Child with Saints Margaret and Jerome, a Mitered Saint, and an Angel of around 1529, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna.1 There is a study for the whole composition in the Uffizi, Florence, attributed to Parmigianino.2

Footnotes:

  1. Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, inv. 588; Gould 1994, 90-96, 183, no. A3.
  2. Uffizi, Florence, inv. 1517E; Popham 1971, 1: 68, no. 79; Gnann 2007, 1: 457, no. 663.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, at upper right, in black chalk, "15".
Watermark: Two crossed arrows, surmounted by a six-pointed star, centered on chain line.
Associated names
Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Schatzki, Walter, 1899-1983, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department