Old Shepherd Leaning on a Staff
Parmigianino
1524/31
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on paper
Dimensions
14.1 × 11.8 cm (5 9/16 × 4 11/16 in.)
Classification
ink with wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
55199
About the Artist
Parmigianino · 1503–1540
Parmigianino (1503–1540), born Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, was an Italian painter and printmaker who became one of the most influential figures of the first generation of Mannerist artists. Orphaned before his second birthday, he was raised by his painter uncles in Parma and showed extraordinary precocity, completing a major altarpiece by age eighteen. His elegant, sophisticated style—charac...