Elderly Shepherd Leaning on a Staff
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks in tan, light brown, and brown, with gold border and watercolor frame
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 11/16 × 4 5/8 in. (17 × 11.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.12.2(8)
About the Artist
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder · 1503–1540
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known as Parmigianino, was born on January 11, 1503, in Parma, into a family of artists. The eighth child of painter Filippo Mazzola and Donatella Abbati, he lost his father to the plague at age two and was raised by his uncles, Michele and Pier Ilario Mazzola, modestly talented painters who taught him the techniques of the craft. By his late teens, Parmigianino d...