Landscape with Jacob Sleeping
Annibale Carracci
1560–1609
Medium
Pen and two tones of brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash, over traces of leadpoint or black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 16 5/16 x 10 3/8 in. (41.4 x 26.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1917
Accession Number
19.76.14
Tags
SleepingMenLandscapes
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.