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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

Rights

Public Domain

Tags

GatesCitiesMadonna and Child

About the Artist

Annibale Carracci · 1560–1609

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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