The Adoration of the Shepherds
Lodovico Carracci
1611/12
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with white heightening, on ivory laid paper prepared with rust-brown wash, partially incised for transfer
Dimensions
27.6 × 27.4 cm (10 7/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
154499
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.