Figures and a Section of a palatial Interior (recto); Studies of Figures and for Stucchi (verso)
with inscriptions 'Francesco Parmagiano' (recto and verso); pen and brown ink
133 x 180mm.
Provenance
J. Richardson Jun. (L.2170)
John Malcolm
The Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy and by descent; Sotheby's, 24 November 1976, lot 20, illustrated, as Attributed to Bernardino Campi ((1,350)
Literature
Descriptive catalogue of drawings....in the possession of the Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy, Ballantyne Press, 1902, no. 33 (as Parmigianino)
Exhibited
London, P. & D. Colnaghi, Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, 1971, no. 26, as attributed to Bernardino Campi
Lot Essay
A similar study is in the Ambrosiana, G. Bora, I Disegni Lombardi e Genovesi del Cinquecento, Treviso, 1980, no. 65, illustrated