Back View of a Seated Nude Youth Facing Left

Back View of a Seated Nude Youth Facing Left by Annibale Carracci

Medium

Red chalk, with traces of highlights in white chalk (?)

Dimensions

Sheet: 12 5/16 x 9 in. (31.4 x 22.8 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1911

Accession Number

11.66.6

Tags

Male Nudes

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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