Adoration of the Shepherds
Primary
Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
(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
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
Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys
1763
Follower of Marcantonio Raimondi
circa 1534
Simon Francois Ravenet, the elder
after 1730-before 1740