Sitzender Lautenspieler, 1536

Title

Sitzender Lautenspieler

Draughtsman

• Parmigianino ?

Period Produced

• 16th century

School

• High Renaissance
• Italian Mannerism

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• gouache
• Vergé paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• brush drawing
• white heightening

Geographic Reference

• Italian

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• preliminary drawing for a chiaroscuro woodcut?
• study after a woodcut?

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Bezeichnet unten rechts (mit der Feder in Braun): Parmens. f. 1536.

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet unten links (mit der Feder in Braun): Parmesan
Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• genre

Primary

• 31D14(+32) adult man (+ right side visible; right - (r. hand, r. foot, etc.))
• 31A2351 sitting on the ground
• 48C7323 lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorbo
• 31A534 beard

Alternative Attribution

• Andrea Schiavone draughtsman; by note on mount