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Two Children Teasing a Cat

Date unknown

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

26 x 35 in. (66 x 88.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Gwynne Andrews Fund, and Bequests of Collis P. Huntington and Ogden Mills, by exchange, 1994

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Annibale Carracci

1560–1609Papal States

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.