Drunken Silenus and Decorative Sketches: Studies for the Tazza Farnese (recto); Two Putti Fighting: Study for the Galleria Farnese (verso)
1599/1601
Medium
Pen and iron gall ink, with brush and brown wash on cream laid paper edge mounted to cream laid paper (recto), and pen and iron gall ink on cream laid paper with decorative border in pen and brown ink (verso)
Dimensions
Primary support: 20.4 × 17.7 cm (8 1/16 × 7 in.); With overlays: 28.4 × 17.7 cm (11 3/16 × 7 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113969
About the Artist
Annibale Carracci · 1560–1609
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.