Western Art Drawings Collection

Niccolò del Abbate (1509/12 - 1571)

formerly attributed to Parmigianino (1503 - 1540)

Two allegorical Figures, 

Parker II (1956) 438; Macandrew (1980) App.2.438

Pen and brown ink on buff paper.  Sheet: 101 x 115 mm

Inscribed at lower centre of framing paper: Parmiggiano

Collector's Mark:&Nbsp; : Richardson, Sen. (L. 2184), lower centre; Barnard (L. 1419), lower right of framing paper

Provenance:&Nbsp; : Jonathan Richardson, Sen. John Barnard

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834, and transferred from the Bodleian Library, 1863; 

WA1863.661