DrawingsItalian16th century

Holy Family

16th century

Artists

ParmigianinoArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Red chalk heightened with white gouache on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

31.8 × 21.3 cm (12 1/2 × 8 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs, 1965.

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