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Saint Roch at right distributing alms to a group of people gathered around him, after Annibale Caracci
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Saint Roch at right distributing alms to a group of people gathered around him, after Annibale Caracci

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 11 15/16 × 17 11/16 in. (30.4 × 45 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Annibale Carracci

1560–1609Papal States

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.