Lot 5: Jacopo Zanguidi, il Bertoia (Parma 1544-1574)

A female figure looking down
with inscription 'Parmigianino'
pen and brown ink on blue-green paper
6 1/8 x 2 5/8 in. (156 x 67 mm.)

Gift of Professor I.Q. van Regteren Altena, August 1936.

The parallel hatching and the fluid lines of the pen are characteristic of Bertoia: comparable examples are in the British Museum (A.E. Popham, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Artists working in Parma, London, 1967, nos. 233, 235, pls. 144, 148) and at Chatsworth, (D. DeGrazia, Bertoia, Mirola and the Farnese Court, Washington, 1991, D4, pl. 188).

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