Figure Studies [recto], c. 1530/1540

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 19.2 x 27.4 cm (7 9/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

1980.31.1.a

Artists / Makers

Perino del Vaga (artist) Italian, 1501 - 1547

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center: P. del Vaga; on verso: Perino 6.2; in artist's hand on verso inventory list in pen and brown ink

Provenance

Sir Peter Lely (L. 2092); Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (L. 2183); William Mayor [d. 1874], London (L. 2799). (Walter Schatzki, New York); purchased by Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm Bick, Longmeadow, MA, 1955; NGA purchase in 1980.

Associated Names

Bick, Malcolm W., Dr.
Lely, Peter, Sir
Mayor, William
Richardson, Sr., Jonathan
Schatzki, Walter, Mr.

Exhibition History

1971: "Italian Drawings. Selections from the Collection of Esther S. and Malcolm W. Bick," Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, 1971, no. 4.

1973: "Drawings and Prints of the First Maniere," Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1973, no. 66.

1974: "Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings. Form and Function," Yale University Art Gallery, 1974, no. 11.

2020: Raphael and His Circle: Prints and Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2020, no cat.

Bibliography

1979: Joachim, Harold, and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago and London, 1979: 26, under no. 10.