Pietà
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown and red wash, heightened with white gouache, on tan ground on laid paper, laid down on cream wove board
Dimensions
28.5 × 21 cm (11 1/4 × 8 5/16 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82048
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.