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Study for a Frieze in the Church of Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma

(Italian, about 1505–about 1569-70)
(Italian, early 1540s–1609)
mid-16th century
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white, on blue paper
DimensionsSheet: 8.8 x 31.3 cm (3 7/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number63.2894
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceWilliam Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; by inheritance to his niece, Lydia Evans Tunnard (Mrs. Christopher Tunnard, b. 1913 - d. 1980), New Haven, CT; 1963, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession date: December 30, 1963)
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