Landscape with Jacob Sleeping
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
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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.