Standing Youth (Saint John the Baptist?), after Parmigianino
1723
18th century
15.7 cm x 7.7 cm (6 3/16 in. x 3 1/16 in.)
Antonio Maria Zanetti
(Venice, 1680 - 1767, Venice)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks printed in rose and two shades of gray
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 2000
Accession Number:
2000.50
Zanetti 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.