Agostino Carracci (1557-1602)

Details

Agostino Carracci (1557-1602)

Studies of the Legs and Foot of a Nude

with inscription 'Agostino Caracci'; pen and brown ink, watermark AM
9 7/8 x 6in. (250 x 150mm.)

Provenance

W. and A. Ames (L. 2602a).

Exhibited

Vassar College, 1963, no. 12.

Lot Essay

The pen-work, with the hatching and the repeated contour line, is comparable with that of a drawing of a putto in the Albertina (V. Birke and J. Kertész, Die Italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, Vienna, 1994, II, Inv. 2115, illustrated), and drawings of a similar subject at Windsor Castle, R. Wittkower, The Drawings of the Carracci in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1952, nos. 134-6, figs. 18-9.