Medium:Red chalk, highlighted with white gouache, on brownish paper
Dimensions:13-7/16 x 17-3/16 in. (34.1 x 43.7 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1917
Object Number:19.76.7
Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink at lower margin of old mount, Primaticcio.
Marking: Stamp of Lankrink collection (Lugt 2090) at lower right
Prosper Henry Lankrink (British); possibly acquired by Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (British); Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (British)(reorganized after 1772-73 in Pembroke Volume IV, XU. 4); by descent to Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke (British); Pembroke Sale, Sotheby's, London, July 5–6, 9–10, 1917, part of no. 500
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Italian Renaissance Drawings from New York Collections," November 9, 1965–January 9, 1966.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Old Master Drawings from American Collections," April 29, 1976–June 13, 1976.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Emilian Drawings and Prints in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1500–1700," March 26–May 24, 1987.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," August 21–November 26, 1995.
Foro Boario, Modena. "Nicolo dell' Abate: storie dipinte nella pittura del Cinquecento tra Modena e Fontainebleau," March 20, 2005–June 19, 2005.
Sandford Arthur Strong Reproductions in Facsimile of Drawings by the Old Masters in the Collection of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery at Wilton House. London, 1900, part 5, no. 52 (as Primaticcio).
Bryson Burroughs "Drawings Among the Recent Acquisitions." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 14, no. 8, New York, August 1919, p. 177.
Winslow Ames Drawings, Fourth Anniversary Exhibition Exh. cat. Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, March 2-April 15, 1936, cat. no. 48, ill.
Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, cat. no. 25 (vol.1), fig. no. 25, ill.
"Some Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum." Connoisseur. vol. 110, New York, January 1943, p. 151.
Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums Anxiety and Elegance, the Human Figure in Italian Art 1520-1580. Exh. cat. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962, cat. no. 28.
Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1964, cat. no. 22, fig. no. 22, ill.
Jacob Bean, Felice Stampfle Drawings from New York Collections, Vol. I: The Italian Renaissance. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1965, p. 61, no. 97, ill.
Jean-Pierre Samoyault Le château de Fontainebleau au XVIe siècle Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais, Paris, 1972, p. 149, under no. 162.
Ebria Feinblatt Old Master Drawings from American Collections. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 1976, no. 85, p. 74, ill.
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, cat. no. 197, fig. no. 197, pp. 207-08, ill.
Olivier Villard Dessins italiens du musée Condé à Chantilly. III: Vénétie, Lombardie, Piémont, Émilie, XVe-XVIe siècle Institut de France, Musée Condé, Chãteau de Chantilly. ed. by Dominique Cordellier, 1998, p. 129.
Dominique Cordellier Primatice, Maître de Fontainebleau. Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre, Paris. Edited by Dominique Cordellier, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2004, p. 385.
Ian Wardropper "The Flowering of the French Renaissance." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, n.s. vol. 62, New York, Summer 2004, p. 18, ill.
Sylvie Béguin, Francesca Piccinini Nicoló dell'Abate: Storie dipinte nella pittura del Cinquecento tra Modena e Fontainebleau. Exh. cat., Foro Boario, Modena. Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2005, pp. 412-13, no. 131 (entry by Sylvie Béguin).
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