Group of Nine Standing Figures
Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540)
1524/27
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid card
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 12.4 × 13.1 cm (4 15/16 × 5 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Collection
- 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
This drawing exemplifies the style Parmigianino developed after his stay in Rome (1524–27), where he would have been exposed to Raphael’s frescoes in the Vatican. It may be a preparatory drawing for a painting of a religious subject; the composition has been linked to the Marriage of the Virgin and a representation of six apostles. Parmigianino’s image has been copied many times by other artists, including Count Antonio Maria Zanetti, who bought this and other drawings by Parmigianino from the Earl of Arundel.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
