The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saints George and William
Lodovico Carracci
1551 to 1600
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
Overall: 27.7 x 20.9 cm (10 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.) support: 34.6 x 28 cm (13 5/8 x 11 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1972.49.3
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.