Saint Roch with a donor and a dog at left

Saint Roch with a donor and a dog at left by Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Francesco Brizio

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 14 3/4 × 10 7/16 in. (37.5 × 26.5 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1979

Accession Number

59.570.400

About the Artist

Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Francesco Brizio · 15031540

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...

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