ID: 700007110 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700007110	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Two Studies for a Holy Family (drawing (visual work); Parmigianino (Italian painter, 1503 - 1540); 1526; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 96.GB.317)

Note: The sheet contains two studies of the Holy Family, one drawn upside down from the other. The study sketched in at the bottom of the sheet is composed of what appears to be the figure of the Madonna seated on the ground holding her right breast with her left hand, with, to the right, a female attendant holding the Child. With the sheet turned the other way up, a variant of the same group appears, this time seemingly of the Madonna and Child with Saint Elizabeth and the infant Baptist. The exact identity of the figures in the two groups is by no means certain, and the seated figure in the first study could be an alternative for the figure of the Madonna, while the identification of the infant Saint John the Baptist in the second remains speculative.

Titles:

Two Studies for a Holy Family (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

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

preparatory study [300081078]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by function>, studies (visual works))

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1526

Creator Display:

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

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

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 96.GB.317

Other: Creation: Italia [1000080] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash, over red chalk, heightened with white gouache; incised line separating the two studies at the center of the sheet

	pens (drawing and writing implements) [300022452]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>)

	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>)

	chalk [300011727]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

	heightening [300053418]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <perspective and shading techniques>)

	gouache (paint) [300070114]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	incising [300053847]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <surface marking processes and techniques>)

Dimensions: 14.9 x 13.5 cm (5 7/8 x 5 5/16 in.)

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Renaissance [300021140] (preferred,style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods>)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	John the Baptist, Saint [901001056]
	.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Mary, Blessed Virgin [901000032]
	.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	St. Elizabeth [901001060]
	.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Inscriptions: Secondary Inscription: Inscribed on the back side of the mat at the upper right, in brown ink, by John Barnard, "No:720/6 by 5 1/4"; inscribed in the center, in graphite, in an unknown, late 19th-century hand, "from the collections of / Richardson / Benjamin West / John Barnard / W. Esdaile / Ch. S. Bale / Parmigianino"; also, the notes "Fairfax Murray Coll."; "25."; "cat. no. 106"

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Two Studies for a Holy Family	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)