Wilton album, folio 41: The Drunken Silenus (Tazza Farnese)
Annibale Carracci
ca. 1597–1600
Medium
Engraving printed from shallow silver cup
Dimensions
sheet: 9 15/16 in. (25.3 cm) in diameter mount: 12 15/16 x 11 1/8 in. (32.8 x 28.2 cm.)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.78.1(150)
Tags
DrunkennessChildrenSilenusSatyrsDrinking
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.