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Marriage of the Virgin
Follower of Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540)
c. 1575
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and blue wash, corrected with touches of lead white (partially oxidized), over black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory wove card
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 26.9 × 42.2 cm (10 5/8 × 16 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Parmigianino's assimilation of Raphael and the Roman School was very influential for the next generation of Mannerist draftsmen. This large and impressive sheet, once thought to be by Parmigianino himself, is freely derived from a drawing by him in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, which relies heavily on Raphael's Vatican frescoes.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
