Sketches of Four Putti (recto); Kneeling Ecclesiastic (verso)
Medium
Black chalk (recto and verso), on blue laid paper
Dimensions
27.9 × 19.4 cm (11 × 7 11/16 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112359
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Lodovico Carracci · 1555–1619
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.