Group of Nine Standing Figures

1. Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (1585-1646), England [inscription on mount]; by descent to his wife, Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel (1585-1654) [McCullagh and Giles 1997]; by descent to her son, William Howard, Lord Stratford (1614-1680), Tart Hall, London; sold by his estate, Tart Hall (Stratford House), London, 1720 [McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Antonio Maria Zanetti (1680-1757), Venice [script (Lugt 2992f), verso, lower center on mount, in pen and brown ink]; by descent through three generations of the Zanetti family [Lugt 2992]; sold by the Zanetti family to Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon (1747-1825), Paris, in 1789 [stamp, (Lugt 779), recto, lower right, in black; McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Samuel Woodburn (1786-1853), London [see Lugt 2584; inscription]; sold, Christie's, London, June 12-14, 1860. Charles Sackville Bale (1791-1880), London, [stamp (Lugt 640), verso, lower center on mount, in black]; sold, Christie's, London, June 10, 1881, lot 2397, as "A Group of Seven Figures," to Riggale [annotated sales catalogue]. Sold, Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, June 26, 1946, lot 862A. Sold by P. & D. Colnaghi and Company, London, to the Art Institute, 1978.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from the Art Institute," 1979-1980, pp. 29-30, cat. 16, pl. 22, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art.
• Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.
• Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," Nov. 1, 2014-Feb. 1, 2015.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking 1400-1850", March 15 - June 1, 2025, p, 72, 98, 113n17, 211, fig. 57 (ill.), cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, Edina Adam, et. al.

• Antonio Maria Zanetti, Raccolta di Varie Stampe a Chiaroscuro Trattate dai Disegni Originali di Francesco Mazzuola, Detto Il Parmigianino e d'Altri Insigni Autori da Anton Maria Zanetti, O. in Gir che gli stessi disegni possiede (Venice, 1749).
• Arthur E. Popham, Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, I (New Haven, 1971), vol 1, p. 257, no. 94, vol. 2, pl. 202.
• Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), p. 50, no. 2B4.
• Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 168-69, no. 217 (ill.).

Venus with Cupid and Putto

Art Institute of Chicago

Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl

Art Institute of Chicago

Minerva (or Bellona) in a Niche

Art Institute of Chicago

Female Heads

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Old Shepherd Leaning on a Staff

Art Institute of Chicago

Holy Family with Mary Magdalene

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Crucifixion

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The Entombment

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