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Marriage of the Virgin

c. 1575
Pen and brown ink with brush and blue wash, corrected with touches of lead white (partially oxidized), over black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory wove card
26.9 × 42.2 cm (10.6 × 16.6 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Parmigianino's assimilation of Raphael and the Roman School was very influential for the next generation of Mannerist draftsmen. This large and impressive sheet, once thought to be by Parmigianino himself, is freely derived from a drawing by him in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, which relies heavily on Raphael's Vatican frescoes.

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