Inscription
by Parmigianino?, at lower left in brown ink (on the cross-section of the sculpture): p[er] ch[é] dann'amore facto o mai/sì certo qual manifesta c[os]/tanza né può senza/tentar; at lower right: san[?] pena [several words crossed out]/cori parole scolto diSscer eo; at bottom right in another hand: Angelo
Provenance
Mrs. E. E. James (sale, Sotheby's, London, 16 May 1962, no. 161, as B. Bandinelli); bought by Williams; (Hans Calmann, London, by 1965); David Daniels, New York, 1965 (sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 April 1978, no. 16, as Anonymous Florentine, 16th Century); NGA purchase via David Tunick, New York, 1978.
Exhibition History
- 1974
- Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings: Form and Function, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1974, no. 10 (as attributed to Benvenuto Cellini)(cat. by Edmund Pillsbury and John Caldwell).
- 2000
- Correggio and Parmigianino, Master Draughtsmen of the Renaissance, British Museum, London, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000-2001, no. 52 (as Parmigianino)(entry by Martin Clayton).
- 2014
- Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors' Drawings from Renaissance Italy. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 183-185, no. 22 (color)(as Italian, 16th Century [Raffaello da Montelupo?])(entry by Linda Wolk-Simon).
Bibliography
- 2001
- Ekserdjian, David. "Parmigianino and the Antique." Apollo (July 2001): 44, fig. 6.
- 2002
- Turner, Nicholas. "Le periferie del corpus graphicum del Parmigianino. Problemi di attribuzioni incerte fra gli specialisti." In Parmigianino e il manierismo europeo. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi. Parma, 13-15 giugno 2002, a cura di L. Fornari Schianchi. Milan, 2002: 229-231, fig. 4 (as Jacopo di Giovanni di Francesco, called Jacone).
- 2002
- Vaccaro, Mary. Review of "Correggio and Parmigianino. Master Draftsmen of the Renaissance." Master Drawings 40, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 259 (as Parmigianino).
- 2004
- Thimann, Michael. "Jüngere literatur zur Parmigianino. Ein Forschungsbericht." Journal für Kunstgeschichte 8, no. 3 (2004): 234.
- 2007
- Gnann, Achim. Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen. Petersberg, 2007, 1: 405, no. 336; 2: 285, repro. (as Parmigianino).