Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)

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Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)

A Landscape with a Procession (recto); Study of a crouching Man, his profile and a foot (verso, laid down)

pen and brown ink, ink gall damages
126 x 196mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, Christie's, 23 November 1971, lot 14, illustrated (200 gns. to Houthakker).

Lot Essay

The vigorous penwork of the present drawing is comparable to a late drawing of Danae in a Landscape by Annibale at Windsor, R. Wittkower, The Drawings of the Carracci in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1952, no. 355, pl. 83.

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