Anteros Victorious

Anteros Victorious by Annibale Carracci

Medium

Red chalk

Dimensions

sheet: 8 13/16 x 6 1/4 in. (22.4 x 16 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Pfeiffer Fund, 1962

Accession Number

62.120.2

About the Artist

Annibale Carracci · 15601609

Annibale was considered one of the greatest Italian painters of his age. His style is marked by naturalism combined with the formal language of Classicism in a grand and monumental style. Annibale was also instrumental in evolving the ideal, classical landscape and is generally credited with the invention of caricature. Italian painter. Comment on works: Mythology.

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