Female Heads

Provenance

Rev. John Anthony Cramer, DD. (1793-1848), Oxford [according to inscription verso, lower left on mount, in pen and brown ink]; sold, Sotheby's, London, Feb. 11, 1850, possibly lot 74 or 76 (as Parmigianino). Frederick R. Aikman; sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Mar. 14, 1913, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center, and verso, center on mount, in black].

Female Heads

Parmigianino

1535/40

Accession Number

82258

Medium

Pen and brown ink with traces of black chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, tipped onto board

Dimensions

10.8 × 8.8 cm (4 5/16 × 3 1/2 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection