Three Feminine Heads
Parmigianino
c. 1522/1524
Medium
red chalk on laid paper; laid down
Dimensions
overall: 10.1 x 15.7 cm (4 x 6 3/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The Circle of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1989.1.1
About the Artist
Parmigianino · 1503–1540
Parmigianino (1503–1540), born Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, was an Italian painter and printmaker who became one of the most influential figures of the first generation of Mannerist artists. Orphaned before his second birthday, he was raised by his painter uncles in Parma and showed extraordinary precocity, completing a major altarpiece by age eighteen. His elegant, sophisticated style—charac...