Adoration of the Shepherds
Primary
Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
(Parma, Italy, 1503–Casalmaggiore, Italy, 1540)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Datecirca 1525-1526
MediumEtching and drypoint
Catalogue raisonnéBartsch 3
DimensionsSheet: 4 5/8 × 3 1/16 in. (11.8 × 7.8 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002.83
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.83
On View
Not on viewThis etching is one of Parmigianino’s many interpretations of the theme. Its small size, seeming informality, and sketchy articulation dramatize his appreciation of etching’s conceptual and procedural relation to drawing.
Exhibitions
Louis Desplaces
1729
Object number: P1963.4.49/178
Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys
1763
Object number: 2000.27
Simon Francois Ravenet, the elder
after 1730-before 1740
Object number: P1963.4.104/178
Louis Jacob
after 1730-before 1740
Object number: P1963.4.166/178
Follower of Marcantonio Raimondi
circa 1534
Object number: 2005.36
Jacob Matham
1588
Object number: 2002.2002

