Figure Studies [recto]
c. 1530/1540
Artist, Italian, 1501 - 1547

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 19.2 x 27.4 cm (7 9/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
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Accession
1980.31.1.a
Associated Artworks

Figure Studies [verso]
Perino del Vaga
1530
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
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.
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.
Inscriptions
lower center: P. del Vaga; on verso: Perino 6.2; in artist's hand on verso inventory list in pen and brown ink
Wikidata ID
Q64619301