Circle of Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609 Rome)
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Circle of Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609 Rome)

A village dance in front of a tree

Details
Circle of Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609 Rome)
A village dance in front of a tree
with attribution 'Annibal Caracci.' (on the recto of the old mount) and with inscription '1741' (on the verso of the old mount)
pen and brown ink, on two sheets of paper
15 7/8 x 11½ in (40.2 x 29.2 cm.)

Provenance
R. Houlditch (L. 2214).
John, Viscount Hampden (L. 1239).
W. Esdaile (L. 2617).
K.E. von Liphart; C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 26 April 1898, lot 197 (as Annibale Carracci).
Prince Johan Georg von Sachsen (L. 4484, with his inventory no. 'S.I., No. 482')
P. Hermann (L. 1352a).
Bernhard Himmelheber, and by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Zeichnungen Alter Meister aus Deutschem Privatbesitz, 1965, no. 22, pl. 15 (as Annibale Carracci; catalogue by A. Hentzen and W. Stubbe).
Engraved
In reverse by Arthur Pond (1701-1758), published in A Collection of Etchings and Engravings in Imitation of Drawings from Various Old Masters, Being Facsimiles of Their Respective Performances, Chiefly by Arthur Pond, & Charles Knapton, London, 1734 (see British Museum inv. 1936,1116.2126.16).
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