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Young Woman Carrying a Vessel,

late 1530s

Parmigianino, 1503–1540; born Parma, Italy; died Casalmaggiore, Italy
x1962-65

Information

Title
Young Woman Carrying a Vessel
Dates

late 1530s

Maker
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk on brown laid paper, with later touches of white heightening
Dimensions
23 × 11.7 cm (9 1/16 × 4 5/8 in.) frame: 40 × 32.4 × 3.2 cm (15 3/4 × 12 3/4 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Margaret Mower for the Elsa Durand Mower Collection
Object Number
x1962-65
Inscription
Pen and brown ink, lower right: Parmesan
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 430
Culture
Type
Materials

See files for note by A. E. Popham, written September 12, 1962, to somebody (name obliterated) at Spink’s, London: “It still puzzles me but I suppose it must be Parmigianino. It was etched by Hollar and was presumably therefore in the Arundel collection.”;

From Popham, “Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino”: Probably dates from Bolognese period, 1527-31. Would appear to have been the pendant to a lost drawing also etched by Hollar” (reproduced on pl. 288). (See reference Bib. 4620);

From Gnann, “Parmigianino...:” dates drawing ca. 1526. (See reference Bib. 4621);