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Adoration of the Shepherds

Primary (Parma, Italy, 1503–Casalmaggiore, Italy, 1540)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Datecirca 1525-1526
MediumEtching and drypoint
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
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.83
On View
Not on view
Label Text
This 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
The Entombment of Christ
Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
circa 1527-1530
The Entombment of Christ
Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
circa 1525-1527
The Adoration of the Shepherds, after Guercino
Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys
1763
Adoration of the Shepherds, after Raphael or Giulio Romano
Follower of Marcantonio Raimondi
circa 1534
Saint Clare
Filippo Mazzola
1502–1505
Adoration of the Shepherds
Andries Jacobsz Stock
1600