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Entombment

Copy after Parmigianino
1503-1540

Entombment

after 1527
12 5/16 x 8 1/8 inches (311 x 207 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, with opaque white, on parchment.
I, 46

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none.
The drawing appears to be a copy after an etching by Parmigianino.
Description

The drawing is a copy of an etching by Parmigianino, of which there are two different versions.1 Sydney Freedberg was the first to note that the drawing was a copy after the etching (unpublished note in the curatorial file, 1948).

Footnotes:

  1. For the etchings, see Oberhuber 1968, 33-37.
Associated names
Holford, Robert Stayner, 1808-1892, former owner.
Salting, George, 1835-1909, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: no. 46 (as Parmigiano); Copertini 1932, 1: 56, note 27 (as not Parmigianino); Poughkeepsie 1968, no. 17.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 46.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department