print
- Museum number
- W,1.214
- Description
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Madonna and Child with St Margaret, other saints and an Angel; in an interior with canopy bed in the background; saint on the left dressed as a bishop, and saint on the right sitting on a dragon with crucifix and rope in his hands; the third saint, a woman, kneels before Jesus.
Etching
- Production date
- 1540-1550
- Dimensions
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Height: 348 millimetres
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Width: 243 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Related to the painting by Parmigianino in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna (inv. 588), where the figures are in a landscape, not an interior. The interior resembles that in Monogrammist IQV's 'Mystic Marriage of St Catherine' (1866,1114.791). Cf. the preparatory drawing by Parmigianino at the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence (inv. 1517E; A. E. Popham, 'Catalogue of Drawings by Parmigianino', 1971, vol. I, p. 68, no. 79). The direct model for the Fontainebleau etching was probably Giulio Bonasone's engraving of Parmigianino's composition (Bartsch XV.126.61). Jenkins 2017.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- W,1.214
