Woman Delousing a Child

Provenance

Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714), Milan (see Lugt 2992 and Lugt 2993); Monsignor Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, Bishop of Arezzo (died 1704), Arezzo (see Lugt 2911); bequeathed to Cavaliere Orzaio Marchetti da Pistoia, his nephew; sold probably through John Talman (died 1726), Hinkworth, Hertfordshire (see Lugt 2462) in 1710 to John, Lord Somers, script (Lugt 2981) recto, lower right and lower center on mount, in pen and brown ink; sold, London, Motteux, May 16, 1717; Earl Spencer [stamp (Lugt 1531), recto, lower right, in black]. Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, August 6-7, 1914, part of lot 439, as "Parmeggiano," to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center on mount, in black].

Woman Delousing a Child

Parmigianino

1524/27

Accession Number

82264

Medium

Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper with blue fibers, laid down on ivory wove card

Dimensions

9.8 × 7.2 cm (3 7/8 × 2 7/8 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection