Lodovico Carracci* (1555-1619)

A Study of a standing Cavalier, holding a sword

Details

Lodovico Carracci* (1555-1619)
A Study of a standing Cavalier, holding a sword
with inscription 'caracci'
red and white chalk, the upper left corner made up
16 x 7 in. (406 x 177 mm.)

Provenance

C. Prayer (L. 2044).
Juan and Felix Bernasconi; Christie's, London, 8 December 1987, lot 24 (£10,450).

Exhibited

London, Courtauld Institute, Drawing in Bologna, 1992, no. 16, illustrated.

Lot Essay

The attribution of the present sheet was suggested by Dr. Babette Bohn who dates it to circa 1589-92. She compares it to Lodovico's study of a Sleeping Nude in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, B. Bohn, The Chalk Drawings by Ludovico Carracci, Master Drawings, XXII, 1984, no. 4, pl. 11. The possibility of an attribution to Annibale, however, should not be excluded.