The Virgin and Child Resting Outside a City Gate

The Virgin and Child Resting Outside a City Gate by Annibale Carracci

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush with traces of brown wash, on light brown beige paper; traces of framing outlines in pen and brown ink

Dimensions

sheet: 7 3/8 x 8 1/2 in. (18.8 x 21.6 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1972

Accession Number

1972.137.2

Tags

GatesCitiesMadonna and Child

About the Artist

Annibale Carracci · 15601609

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.

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