The Entombment

c. 1530

Parmigianino

Associated Names
Parmigianino

Artist, Parmese, 1503 - 1540

The etching depicts a central reclining figure with a group of standing and seated individuals surrounding them. The figures have intricate facial features, flowing hair, and are dressed in loose garments. The background features dense, cross-hatched lines while the foreground shows detailed foliage with large leaves.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 33.1 x 24 cm (13 1/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 33.3 x 24.2 cm (13 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1980.14.9

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 5, State i

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

1989

  • Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,1989, no. 9, repro.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1989

  • Reed, Sue Welsh and Richard Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque. Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989: no.9.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 184, 268, 271; fig.3.53, 185.

Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q65576060

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