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Look at the boy from behind, from his cap and puffed breeches down to his feet, then at the three jugs and the glass on the cabinet.
A young man in a cap, a short jacket and puffed breeches stands with his back to us at a cabinet that holds jugs and a glass. The two titles offer two readings of the scene: a page serving wine, or an apprentice in a painter’s studio. An old note on the mount gives the drawing to Federico Zuccaro, under whose name it was sold in 1912, but it is now catalogued as the work of Parmigianino.
Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper, laid down on cream board · 17.3 × 11.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · High Renaissance and Mannerism
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- Museum title
- Page Serving Wine or The Painter's Apprentice
- Artist
- Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino Italian, 1503-1540
- Date
- 1530/40
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper, laid down on cream board
- Dimensions
- 17.3 × 11.5 cm (6 13/16 × 4 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1503–1540
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.