print
- Museum number
- W,4.95
- Description
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Group of nymphs bathing, after Parmigianino. 1540s
Chiaroscuro woodcut
- Production date
- 1540-1549 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 287 millimetres
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Width: 196 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Bartsch thought the print by Andreani, but the state without the monogram of Andreani, which Bartsch thought to be the second state, is in fact the first.
It is after a drawing by Parmigianino in the Uffizi, Florence (Inv. No. 751E). (A. E. Popham, Catalogue of Drawings by Parmigianino, 1971, vol. I, p. 66, no. 74). For the attribution to Niccolò Vicentino, see Naoko Takahatake, 'The chiaroscuro woodcut in Renaissance Italy', Los Angeles 2018, p.46. There are three variant impressions of this print in the BM.
For a possible identification of the subject, see Vida J. Hull, 'Parmigianinos Nymphs bathing identified as The discovery of Callisto's pregnancy', in 'Konsthistorisk tidskrift', 73, 2004, pp. 2-14.
For further information and bibliography see the entry by Naoko Takahatake on the online catalogue 'Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento', ALU.0994.1
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- W,4.95
