Massacre of the Innocents [recto]

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash on blue-green paper

Dimensions

overall: 18.1 x 18 cm (7 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1971.67.7.a

Artists / Makers

Jacopo Zanguidi, called Bertoia (artist) Parmese, 1544 - 1573/1574

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center: Parmigianino; lower left stamped: F.H. N.o 55 (Flury-Hérard mark and inv. no.)

Provenance

Jules Dupan (Lugt 1440)(his sale, Bonnefans de la Vialle, Paris, 26-28 March 1840, no. 455 (as Tintoretto); M. de Bourguignon de Fabregoules, Aix en Provence; given by him to M. Charles-Joseph-Barthélemi Giraud (1802-1880), Aix en Provence and Paris; ceded by him to the banker Flury-Hérard, Paris, in payment for debts outstanding (Lugt 1015; inv. no. 55). Private collection (sale, Christie's, London, 28 June 1966, no. 32; purchased by Claas); (Lucien Goldschmidt, New York); NGA purchase in 1971.

Associated Names

Bonnefans de la Vialle
Bourguignon de Fabregoules, de, M.
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Claas
Dupan, Jules
Flury-Hérard
Giraud, Charles-Joseph-Barthélemi
Goldschmidt, Inc., Lucien
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)

Exhibition History

1974: NGA RA 1974, p. 201.

1984: Correggio and His Legacy, Sixteenth-Century Emilian Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984, no. 71 (Diane De Grazia).

1984: Correggio e il suo lascito, disegni del cinquecento emiliano, Parma, Palazzo della Pilotta, 1984, no. 71 (Italian version of the Washington exhibition).

Bibliography

1991: De Grazia, Diane. Bertoia, Mirola and the Farnese Court. Bologna, 1991: no. D91, figs. 54 (recto), 55 (verso).