Madonna en Kind met wereldbol

[After Parmigianino]

340

The Virgin and Child with a globe

Verso: Sketches of a kneeling female figure, weeping

Brush and brown ink, heightened with white, over black chalk, on dark buff paper. Framing line (partly trimmmed) in pencil. Stained, upper right; some abrasion.

Verso: Red chalk.

223 x 176 mm.

WATERMARK: {Rattle (?)} {PHOTO?}

CHAIN LINES: 31-33 mm (v).

PROVENANCE: Odescalchi; acquired in 1790 (L. 2392).

INV. NO.: K II 59.


This would appear to be a copy after an untraced study for the Madonna della Rosa of c. 1529 in Dresden. A late eighteenth-century etching and aquatint by Giovanni Battista Frulli reproduces what may be the original drawing, then in the collection of the Bolognese artist and collector Carlo Bianconi (Popham, 1971, I, p. 248, no. O.R. 16; pl. 232). Our copyist misinterpreted the right hand of the Child, summarily rendered in the print, and omitted the table and curtain.
On the basis of the sketches on the verso, a date in the seventeenth century may be suggested.