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Annibale Carracci | Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) | Leonardo da Vinci | Pier Leone Ghezzi | William Hogarth

April 1743

Medium

Etching; first state of two

Tags

FacesMenProfilesWomen

Dimensions

sheet: 10 7/8 x 8 13/16 in. (27.7 x 22.4 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Annibale Carracci

1560–1609 • Papal States

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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