Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Parmigianino)

Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist is a painting by Parmigianino, executed c. 1528.

There it hung in the Palazzo del Giardino and later in the Galleria Ducale - the 'Descrizione' of the latter in 1725 called it one of the finest works on display there.

Its attribution to Parmigianino is almost undisputed, though its dating is more debated - some scholars place it in his period in Rome (1524-1527) and others to his time in Bologna (1527-1530), whilst Freedberg argues it belonged to a second stay in Parma (1530-1539).

Vasari records Parmigianino painting two works in gouache in Bologna "for Master Luca di Leuti".

Four preparatory drawings for the work survive (one each) in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle (RCIN 990346),[1] the Galleria nazionale di Parma (inv.