Attributed to Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609 Rome)

A man and his donkey in a landscape

Details

Attributed to Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609 Rome)
A man and his donkey in a landscape
pen and brown ink
7 3/8 x 9¾ in. (19 x 24.7 cm.)

Provenance

E. Jabach.
P.-J. Mariette (L. 1852); Paris, 15 November 1775 and following days, probably lot 306 ('Deux beaux paysages en travers aussi à la plume: l'un des deux est gravé par Corneille dans la suite de Jaback').
Marquis de Lagoy (L. 1710).
Anonymous sale; Paris, Drouot, 26 June 1990, lot 108, where acquired by the present owner.

Engraved

in reverse by Jean-Baptiste Corneille for the Recueil Jabach, pl. 29A (S.M. Bailey, Carracci landscape studies; The Drawings Related to the Recueil de 283 estampes de Jabach, [Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993], Ann Arbor, 1994, no. 125, illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Copies after this drawing are in Besançon (S.M. Bailey, op. cit., fig. 125a) and in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (inv. 81-30/15). There is also a drawing of the same composition, albeit with minor variations, in the Grimaldi album at the British Museum (N. Turner, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Roman Drawings c. 1620 to c. 1700, London, 1999, no. 144(129), illustrated).

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