Nymphs bathing. Colour engraving by S. Mulinari after F. Mazzola, il Parmigianino.

  • Parmigianino, 1503-1540.
Date:
1766
Reference:
3015538i
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Description

The subject was regarded by Popham (loc. cit.) as obscure and difficult to identify. The reclining woman on the left is accompanied by Cupid, which suggests she may be Venus. Weigel identified the subject as the bath of Diana. Hull suggested the discovery of Callisto's pregnancy: Callisto would be the reclining woman whose nudity is exposed by the standing woman holding a robe

Publication/Creation

1766

Physical description

1 print : etching and tone, printed in browncolour ; image and border 27.7 x 20.1 cm

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Lettering

Parmigianino inv. e. del. SMulinari inci. Bears number: N. XI. It is not clear why Weigel (loc. cit.) gives the number 43

References note

R. Weigel, Die Werke der Maler in ihren Handzeichnungen, Leipzig: R. Weigel, 1865, no. 5592, p. 471 ("Das Bad von Diana. Composition von sechs Figuren. Feder und Bister. S. Mulinari sc. H. 10''3''', Br. 7''5'''. Mulinari, Disegni originali nella Galleria di Firenze 43")
Vida Hull, 'Parmigianino's "nymphs bathing" identified as "the discovery of Callisto's pregnancy"', Konsthistorisk tidskrift / Journal of art history, 2004, 73: 2-14

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3015538i

Reproduction note

After a drawing by Parmigianino in the Uffizi, Florence, no. 751E: A.E. Popham, Catalogue of drawings by Parmigianino, 1971, vol. I, p. 66, no. 74

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