Currently indexing
Parmigianino, Italian, 1503-1540
after Correggio, Italian, 1489-1534
Title: A Putto with an Eagle; ?Saint Matthias (on verso)
Date: 1522/1523
Medium: Red chalk on paper
Dimensions:
17.6 x 14.8 cm
Credit Line: Purchased, 1866
Object Number: NGI.2064
DescriptionThis is one of a number of preparatory drawings made by Parmigianino while he was working on the decoration of the side chapels of the church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma between the years 1522-23. It reproduces, with slight variations, the motif of a putto embracing an eagle (St John the Evangelist), painted by Correggio (1489-1534), on the frieze running around the base of the cupola. Parmigianino may have referred to preliminary studies by Correggio, or he may have copied it from the fresco itself.
ProvenanceJonathan Richardson Sr.; Benjamin West; purchased, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1866, Revd Dr. H. Wellesley Sale, lot 355
Exhibition HistoryDrawings from the National Gallery of Ireland, Wildenstein, London/New York, 1967
Master European Drawings From the Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centre, Colorado; Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; The Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minnesota; The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1983
Master European Drawings From the Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centre, Colorado; Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; The Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minnesota; The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1983