Madonna and Child with Angels
Lodovico Carracci
1595/1610
Medium
etching, engraving, and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (cut within platemark): 16.2 x 11.6 cm (6 3/8 x 4 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2002.44.1
About the Artist
Lodovico Carracci
Lodovico's style is charaterized by being less classical than that of his younger cousins, Agostino and Annibale, his figures have a sense of other-worldliness, and he is more influenced by Mannerist art than his cousins. Like his cousins, he espoused the direct study of nature, especially through figure drawing; he was influenced by the paintings of Correggio and the Venetians.