Seated woman with two children (Virgin with Christ and St John the Baptist?)
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 6 5/8 × 4 5/8 in. (16.8 × 11.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.97.578
Tags
About the Artist
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Léon Davent · 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...