Medium:Charcoal or soft black chalk, highlighted with traces of white chalk, on blue-gray paper faded light brown
Dimensions:sheet: 15 3/16 x 19 5/8 in. (38.5 x 49.9 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Accession Number:1972.118.244
Inscription: The recto is annotated by an early hand, at bottom left, in blue chalk: "93".
Walter C. Baker (American)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Walter C. Baker Collection of Drawings," June 2–September 4, 1960.
Morgan Library & Museum, New York. "Drawings from New York Collections, II. The Seventeenth Century in Italy," February 23, 1967–April 22, 1967.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints by the Carracci," April 24–July 1, 1973.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," January 9–April 6, 2006.
Michael Jaffé "Some Drawings by the Carracci." Paragone. Vol. 7, no. 83, London, 1956, pp. 12-13, pl. 4, ill.
Julius S. Held Rubens: Selected Drawings. Phaidon Press, London, 1959, p. 113.
Michael Jaffé "The Master Hand of Rubens [review of Julius Held', "Rubens, Selected Drawings," vol. I]" in Art News. vol. 58, 1959, p. 62.
Claus Virch "The Walter C. Baker Collection of Master Drawings." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 18 (1958-60). New York, 1960.
A. Hyatt Mayor, Daniel Wildenstein Centennial Loan Exhibition, Drawings and Watercolors from Alumnae and Their Families. Exh. cat. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1961, cat. no. 27, fig. no. 27.
Claus Virch Master Drawings in the Collection of Walter C. Baker. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962, cat. no. 26, p. 27, ill.
Jacob Bean Great Private Collections. Douglas Cooper, Macmillan & Co., New York, 1963, fig. no. p. 30, p. 30, ill.
Jacob Bean, Felice Stampfle Drawings from New York Collections, Vol. II: The Seventeenth Century in Italy. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1967, cat. no. 9, ill.
Donald Posner Annibale Carracci: A Study in the Reform of Italian Painting Around 1590. vol. 1, 5. Phaidon, London, 1971, vol. 2, p. 33.
Jacob Bean Drawings and Prints by the Carracci. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (April 24-July 1, 1973). New York, 1973, cat. no. 14.
Gianfranco Malafarina, J. Patrick Cooney L'opera completa di Annibale Carracci. Milan, 1976, cat. no. 3, fig. no. 3, appendix 3, ill.
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 17th century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1979, cat. no. 98, fig. no. 98, p. 67, ill.
Jadranka Bentini, Angelo Mazza , eds. Disegni emiliani del Sei-Settecento: I grandi cicli di affreschi. Cinisello Balsamo (Milan), 1990, p. 24, fig. 2.1 (text by Mario di Giampaolo), ill.
Catherine Loisel Ludovico, Agostino, Annibale Carracci. Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts Graphiques, Inventaire géneral des dessins italiens, Paris, 2004, fig. no. 52, p. 46, ill.
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