Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Jerome
16th-17th century
12.9 cm x 18.8 cm (5 1/16 in. x 7 3/8 in.)
Jacopo Negretti, called Palma Giovane
(Venice, circa 1548 - 1628, Venice)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Etching
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Julie and Lawrence Salander, 2006
Accession Number:
2006.267
Palma was also a frequent etcher in the same swift, animated style of his pen studies. His most sustained and influential project was an instruction manual of drawing based upon his etched plates. Carrying the technique beyond the careful description of Battista Franco––though well short of the eccentricity and expressiveness of Schiavone––such efforts helped establish the principles and determine the language of conventional Italian etching through the next century.