Description: Fragment of a number at lower right in pen and brown ink: 10

Verso: Study for Eva and fragment of another subject. Pen and brown ink, traces of red chalk.

Probably a study for the Aaron in the S. Maria della Steccata, Parma. Aaron is one of the four figures (Adam, Eve, Moses and Aaron) at the bases of the "sottoarchi". Parmigianino worked on this commission 1531-39.

The verso study of Eve was discovered when the sheet was re-mounted. It is closest to the studies on the sheet in the Metropolitan Museum with nine studies of Moses recto, nine of Eve verso.  [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 258]

Foto: Erik Cornelius / Nationalmuseum 2010

Titel (sv): Aaron, studie för S. Maria della Steccata, Parma (recto); Eva och en arm, studier för S. Maria della Steccata, Parma (verso)
Titel (en): Study for the figure of Aaron in S. Maria della Steccata, Parma (recto); Studies for the figure of Eve and an arm for S. Maria della Steccata, Parma (verso)

Aaron, studie för S. Maria della Steccata, Parma (recto); Eva och en arm, studier för S. Maria della Steccata, Parma (verso)

Study for the figure of Aaron in S. Maria della Steccata, Parma (recto); Studies for the figure of Eve and an arm for S. Maria della Steccata, Parma (verso)