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Old Shepherd Leaning on a Staff
Parmigianino · 1524/31
Provenance
Ownership history
- Cavaliere Francesco Baiardo (died 1561); bequeathed to his grandson, Marcantonio Cavalca. Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1585-1646), London; sold, London, Tart Hall (Stafford House), 1720, to Gerhard Michael Jabach; sold, Paris, 1721 to Count Antonio Maria Zanetti (see Lugt 2992f). Giovanni Antonio Armano. E. Bouverie [stamp (Lugt 325), recto, lower right, in black]. Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 15, pl. 20, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also travelled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking 1400-1850", March 15 - June 1, 2025, p. 67, 70, 211, fig. 55 (ill.), cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, Edina Adam, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Arthur E. Popham, "Parmigianino as a Landscape Draughtsman," Art Quarterly 20 (1957), pp. 275-86.
- Bertha H. Wiles, “Two Parmigianino Drawings from the Aeneid,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 1 (1966), pp. 96-111, fig. 6, as The Old Shepherd.
- Arthur E. Popham, "The Baiardo Inventory," in Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art Presented to Anthony Blunt (London and New York, 1967), pp. 26-29.
- 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. 171, no. 220 (ill.).
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