Il Gobbo dei Carracci
Medium
Etching and aquatint, brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 11 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (29.6 x 19.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.2040
Tags
PaintingMenProfiles
About the Artist
Annibale Carracci|Arthur Pond · 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.