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Correggio and Parmigianino: Master Draftsmen of the Renaissance

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A Man Riding a Bull and Other Figures, ca. 1518
Correggio (Italian, ca. 1489–1534)
Black chalk and pale brown wash
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles


The Annunciation, ca. 1522–25
Correggio (Italian, ca. 1489–1534)
Pen and black ink, gray wash, extensive white heightening, squared in red chalk, on pink-washed paper
Hewitt Fund, 1917 (19.76.9)


Allegory of Vice, ca. 1530–31
Correggio (Italian, ca. 1489–1534)
Red chalk
British Museum, London


The Nativity with the Virgin in Glory and Saint Anthony of Padua, ca. 1525–26
Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540)
Pen and brown ink, gray-brown wash, white heightening, the outlines pricked on blue paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford


Mercury, ca. 1524–26
Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540)
Black chalk
Florence B. Seldon Bequest, Jessie Price Gift, and Harry G. Sperling Fund (1997.154)


Christ Healing the Lepers, ca. 1525
Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540)
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, white heightening
Chatsworth, Devonshire Collections


Studies of the Baptist Preaching, ca. 1526–30
Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540)
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, the studies on the left and in the center with brown wash and white heightening
British Museum, London


Bishop Saint in Prayer Seen in Bust-length, ca. 1527–30
Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540)
Brush with brown and gray-brown wash over stylus-ruled lines and charcoal; some contours stylus-incised (now flattened), on three glued sheets of paper
Van Day Truex, 1995 (1995.306)


Three canephori, and Vaulting, ca. 1534
Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540)
Black chalk underdrawing, brush and brown ink, yellow, green, and mauve washes, red heightening, worked over with pen and brown ink and white heightening
Chatsworth, Devonshire Collections


Nine Studies for the Figure of Moses in the Steccata (recto), ca. 1531–35
Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540)
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over traces of leadpoint and stylus ruling
Pfeiffer Fund, 1962 (62.135)


The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Francis, ca. 1534–35
Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540)
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, gray wash, white heightening, on light brown paper
British Museum, London


A Standard Bearer, ca. 1530–40
Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540)
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk
British Museum, London





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