Medium:Pen and two tones of brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash, over traces of leadpoint or black chalk
Dimensions:sheet: 16 5/16 x 10 3/8 in. (41.4 x 26.3 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1917
Object Number:19.76.14
Inscription: The recto is annotated by a 17th century hand, at lower right, with the original annotation in pale brown ink gone over in a darker shade of brown ink: "di mano di Anniballe Carracci"; at upper right, in pen and brown ink: "2". The verso is annotated by an early hand, at lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Aa: 39" [crossed out]; "An: Carrahhio"; "-40 / 6. 2."; at lower left, in pen and brown ink: "374/216". The old mount, which is now detached from the drawing, is annotated, in pen and brown ink: "Jacob asleep y.e ladder with angels at a great distance".
Marking: Stamp, at lower right, Peter Lely (Lugt 2092)
Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes) (Dutch, British); possibly Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (British); Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (British), by 1772 (was in Pembroke volume II, XU.2., dated 24 Nov. 1772); by descent to Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke (British); Sotheby's, London- Pembroke sale July 5–6, 9–10, 1917, no. 376
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Masterpieces of Drawing," November 4, 1950–February 11, 1951.
New York. Morgan Library & Museum. "Landscape Drawings and Water-colors, Bruegel to Cézanne," January 31, 1953–April 11, 1953.
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 8–April 13, 2008.
Sandford Arthur Strong Reproductions in Facsimile of Drawings by the Old Masters in the Collection of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery at Wilton House. London, 1900, Part 5 , no. 44 (as Annibale Carracci).
Sotheby's, London, Earls of Pembroke Catalogue of superb prints, drawings, pictures, and armour from the historical collections at Wilton House, Salisbury, the property of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Pembroke & Montgomery. Sale catalogue. July 5-6, 9-10, 1917, no. 376.
Bryson Burroughs "Drawings from the Pembroke Collection." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 14, no. 6, New York, June 1919, p. 176.
Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, vol. 1, no. 27 (also N.S., no. 10).
"Some Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum." Connoisseur. vol. 110, New York, January 1943, p. 151, fig. 8, ill.
Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 4, 1950–February 11, 1951. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1950, no. 47, ill.
Felice Stampfle Landscape Drawings and Water-colors, Bruegel to Cézanne. Exh. cat. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 1953, no. 13.
P. A. Tomory The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings Exh. cat. Leicester, 1954, p. 26.
Sir Denis Mahon, Maurizio Calvesi Mostra dei Carracci. Disegni. Exh. cat., Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna (Sept. 1 - Nov. 25, 1956). 2nd edition revised and corrected (1st. in 1956). Bologna, 1963, p. 63, under no. 241, ill.
Frederick J. Cummings Art in Italy 1600-1700. Exh. cat., The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, no. 73.
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, no. 10.
Renato Roli I disegni italiani del Seicento: scuole emiliana, toscana, romana, marchigiana e umbra. Vicenza, 1969, p. 9, pl. 11.
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, no. 23.
A. W. A. Boschloo Annibale Carracci in Bologna: Visible Reality in Art after the Council of Trent. 2 volumes, Rome-The Hague, 1974, vol. 1, p. 37, vol. 2, p. 142, ill.
Romance and Reality. Exh. cat. Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 1978, no. 12, fig. 2.
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 17th century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1979, p. 69, no. 99.
Denys Sutton "Robert Langton Douglas, Part III, Agent for the Metropolitan Museum." Apollo. ., London, June 1979, p. 433, fig. 15.
Clare Robertson "Annibale Carracci and Invenzione: Medium and Function in the Early Drawings." Master Drawings. Vol. 35, no. 2, 1997, pp. 8, 38 n. 48, fig. 12.
"Franscesco Brizio: Prospetti e Paesaggi." Accademia Clementina: Atti e Memorie. n.s., vols. 38-39, Bologna, 1998-99, pp. 5, 22, fig. 36, ill.
Catherine Loisel Ludovico, Agostino, Annibale Carracci. Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts Graphiques, Inventaire géneral des dessins italiens, Paris, 2004, p. 78 (n. 262).
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