Landscape with Man Sleeping beneath Tree (recto); Landscape with a Horseman (verso)
Medium
Pen and brown ink (recto) and pen and brown, purple, red, and green inks (verso) on cream laid paper
Dimensions
30.4 × 22.5 cm (12 × 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
149025
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.