Study for the Figure of the Virgin, Presbytery Frescoes, Parma Cathedral

between 1538 and 1544

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli Italian, ca.1500-1569

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Study for the Figure of the Virgin, Presbytery Frescoes, Parma Cathedral

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Title Study for the Figure of the Virgin, Presbytery Frescoes, Parma Cathedral

Artwork Date between 1538 and 1544

Artist Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli

Life Dates ca.1500-1569

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and ink and wash over traces of charcoal (?) heightened with white gouache on pink prepared paper

Dimensions Sheet: 6 3/16 × 3 3/4 inches (15.7 × 9.5 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1SDR166

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on mat, lower center: Parmeggiano Inscribed, in pencil, on mat, lower right corner: Scripps | 166 Inscribed, in pencil, on mat, lower left corner: No 844 [844 crossed-out] 166 Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on mat, verso, upper center: T[?]a.45. | 22. | M. Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on mat, verso, lower right corner: 2 Day [or Fay?]

Marks Stamp, in black, lower right corner: Sir Peter Lely (Lugt 2092) Stamp, in black, lower right corner: Jonathan Richardson (Lugt 2183)

Provenance

Sir Peter Lely (London, England). Jonathan Richardson, Senior (London, England). March 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England). James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 274, no. A11.

Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, p. 294, cat. 237 (ill.) [as 'Hope'].

Vacarro, Mary, "New Attributions for Drawings by Girolamo Mazzola Bedoni for Parma Catherdral." Master Drawings LI, 2 (2013): pp. 165-180, p. 175 (fig. 25).

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Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Study for the Figure of the Virgin, Presbytery Frescoes, Parma Cathedral, between 1538 and 1544, pen and ink and wash over traces of charcoal (?) heightened with white gouache on pink prepared paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR166.