NOTIZIE STORICO-CRITICHE
Chiaroscuro woodcut from 3 blocks, i state
Only known impression: a darkest block-only variant
state i/ii: inscribed in light tone block: “Taglio d'Alex.ro Ghandini”; before Andreani's address
state ii/ii: with Andreani's address added to the darkest block: “AA/ In Mantova/MDCX”
See also comment in ALU.1050.1
from
Naoko Takahatake, The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June-September 2018, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, October 2018-January 2019, DelMonico Books/Prestel, Munich-London-New York, 2018, pp. 196-199.
Andreani impression (state ii/ii):
-BM 1895,0122.1266: light brown/brown/black https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0122-1266
BIBLIOGRAFIA
Popham A.E.,
Catalogue of the drawings of Parmigianino, New Haven, 1971, v. 1, p. 214, n. 746, v. 2, tav. 208
Trotter W.H.,
Chiaroscuro woodcuts of the circles of Raphael and Parmigianino a study in reproductive graphics, The Univ. of North Carolina, 1974, pp. 120–121
Gnann A.,
In Farbe! Clair-obscur-Holzschnitte der Renaissance - Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Georg Baselitz und der Albertina in Wien, Monaco, 2013, p. 270, n. 132
Johnson J., "Alessandro Gandini. Uncovering the identity of a chiaroscuro woodcutter", in
Print Quarterly, 2013, pp. 3-13, pp. 3-13