Standing Youth (Saint John the Baptist?), after Parmigianino
Primary
Antonio Maria Zanetti
(Venice, Italy, 1680–1767)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Date1723
MediumChiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks printed in rose and two shades of gray
DimensionsSheet: 6 3/16 × 3 1/16 in. (15.7 × 7.7 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 2000.50
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2000.50
On View
Not on viewZanetti was an important collector of drawings and an amateur printmaker. This exquisite chiaroscuro not only reproduces one of his own Parmigianinos, but revives the technique with which the earliest reproductions of the master’s drawings were associated.
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