ID: 700000117 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000117	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Group of Nine Standing Figures (preparatory drawing; Parmigianino (Italian painter, 1503-1540); mid 1520s; Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, Un...; 1978.275)

Note: This drawing exemplifies the style Parmigianino developed after his stay in Rome (1524–27), where he would have been exposed to Raphael’s frescoes in the Vatican. It may be a preparatory drawing for a painting of a religious subject; the composition has been linked to the Marriage of the Virgin and a representation of six apostles. It was used by Hendrik van der Borcht the younger in an etching of six standing apostles. This drawing exemplifies the style Parmigianino developed after his stay in Rome (1524–27), where he would have been exposed to Raphael’s frescoes in the Vatican. It may be a preparatory drawing for a painting of a religious subject; the composition has been linked to the Marriage of the Virgin and a representation of six apostles. Parmigianino’s image has been copied many times by other artists, including Count Antonio Maria Zanetti, who bought this and other drawings by Parmigianino from the Earl of Arundel.

Titles:

Group of Nine Standing Figures (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

preparatory drawing [300068293] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, drawings (visual works), <drawings by function>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

European art

Creation Date: mid 1520s

Creator Display:

Parmigianino (Italian painter, 1503-1540) [preferred,VP]

draftsman Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (Italian painter, 1503-1540) Extent: execution [500012615]

Locations:

Creation: Roma [7000874] Roma province (province), Lazio (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, United States) [500304669] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1978.275

Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Collection

Display Materials: pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid cardboard

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	wash (material) [300011051]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	laid paper [300014184]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by production method>)

	cardboard [300014224]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by form>, pasteboard (paper))

Dimensions: 12.4 x 13.1 cm (4 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	drapery (representations) [300262585]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

	Marriage of the Virgin Mary [901000027]
	.....((Life of the Virgin Mary, New Testament narratives, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	apostle [300343837]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion) (AAT)

Provenance: Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (died 1646), England [inscription on mount]; bequeathed to his wife, Countess of Arundel, 1646-1654 [McCullagh and Giles 1997]; by descent to her son, William Howard, Lord Stratford, Tart Hall, London, to 1680; sold by his estate, Tart Hall (Stratford House), London, 1720 [McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Antonio Maria Zanetti (died 1757), Venice [Lugt Suppl. 2992f]; by descent through three generations of the Zanetti family [Lugt Suppl. 2992]; sold by the Zanetti family to Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon (died 1825), Paris, in 1789 [Lugt 779; McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Samuel Woodburn (died 1853), London [Lugt 2584; inscription]; sold, London, June 12-14, 1860. Charles Sackville Bale (died 1880), London, [Lugt 640]; sold, Christie's, London, June 10, 1881, Bale sale, lot 2397, as "A Group of Seven Figures," to Riggale [annotated sales catalogue]. Sold, Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, June 26, 1946, lot 862A. Sold by P. & D. Colnaghi and Company, London, to the Art Institute, 1978.

Inscriptions: inscribed verso on mount, at left, in pen and brown ink (by. A. M. Zanetti): e La stampa intagliata all'acqua / forte in Londra da Enrico Vander / Borcht da [questo] disegno, che era di / quelli dello studio famoso del S. Conte / d'Arondell Inglese; at center left, in graphite: Parmigianino; at lower left, in graphite: S. Woodburn.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Group of Nine Standing Figures	........ [VP]
	........ CDWA online (1995-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access [online] (2003-) http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/52668

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access [online] (2003-) http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/52668