Virgin and Child (recto); Sketch of Three Saints and Caricature Sketch (verso)
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over black and red chalk (recto) and pen and brown ink (verso) on tan laid paper, tipped onto brown laid paper
Dimensions
32.1 × 22.1 cm (12 11/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112830
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...