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The torso of a draped woman 1625-50
Pen and ink with brown wash | 8.2 x 5.9 cm, top corners cut (sheet of paper) | RCIN 990556
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A drawing of the drapery over the body of a woman. A copy of a lost drawing by Parmigianino, a study for his 'Madonna del Collo Lungo'. The original was recorded in an etching by F. Rosaspina when in the collection of G.A. Armano (an impression of the print in the British Museum, Rosaspina album, no. 500), together with two other drawings for the same motif now in the British Museum (1905,1101.61-2).
This is one of 24 drawings at Windsor from a single album that was in the collection of William Gibson in the seventeenth century (RCIN 933317); the drawings in that album were RCINs 990540, 990542-3, 990551-7, 990569-77, 990585-8, 990591. All these appear to be copies after Parmigianino drawings in the collection of Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel (1585-1646), and the copies must have been made by one of the artists in Arundel’s circle, such as Lucas Vorsterman or Hendrick van der Borcht. Eight of the compositions were etched by Nicholas Lanier among his 'Prove prime fatti a l'acqua forte da N. Lanier a l'eta sua giovenile di sessanta otto Anni 1656' (see A. Griffiths, The Print in Stuart Britain, 1998, no. 55, and British Museum, inv. W,2.127), and it is possible that Lanier himself either made or owned these drawings.
Provenance
From a small album from the collection of William Gibson (RCIN 933317; qv. for more provenance details); probably acquired by Charles II.
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink with brown wash
Measurements
8.2 x 5.9 cm, top corners cut (sheet of paper)
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