Drunken Silenus and Decorative Sketches: Studies for the Tazza Farnese (recto); Two Putti Fighting: Study for the Galleria Farnese (verso) by Annibale Carracci
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Drunken Silenus and Decorative Sketches: Studies for the Tazza Farnese (recto); Two Putti Fighting: Study for the Galleria Farnese (verso)

Annibale Carracci · 1599/1601

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Pierre Crozat (died 1740), Paris; sold, Paris, April 10–May 13, 1741, Crozat sale, lot 441. Pierre-Jean Mariette (died 1774), Paris [Lugt 1852]. Count Moriz von Fries (died 1826), Vienna [Lugt 2903]. Sir Thomas Lawrence (died 1830), London [Lugt 2445]; sold by Lawrence estate to Samuel Woodburn (died 1853) [Washington, D.C., 1999]. Lord Francis Egerton (died 1857), 1st Earl of Ellesmere, London; by descent; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 11, 1972, Ellesmere sale, lot 68. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • London, Lawrence Gallery, 1836, cat. 59.
  • Leicester Museums and Art Gallery, "The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings," 1954, cat. 47.
  • London, P.&D. Colnaghi, "Drawings by the Carracci and Other Masters," 1955, cat. 12.
  • Bologna, Palazzo dell’Archiginnasio, "Mostra dei Carracci: Disegni," September 1-November 25, 1956, cat. 112.
  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne, "The Carracci, Drawings and Paintings," 1961, cat. 123.
  • Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family," 1979, pp. 458-60.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "New Accessions: Old Master Drawings of the Fifteenth–Eighteenth Centuries," December 2, 1989–June 8, 1990.
  • New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 10; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
  • Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "The Drawings of Annibale Carracci," September 1999-January 2000, cat. 66.

Literature

Published references

  • Pierre-Jean Mariette, Abecedario I (1851–1862), p. 319.
  • Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House (London, 1898), no. 70.
  • Otto Kurz, "Engravings on Silver by Annibale Carracci," Burlington Magazine (September 1955), pp. 282-87 (ill.).
  • Roseline Bacou, Dessins des Carrache (Paris, 1961), under no. 81.
  • John Rupert Martin, The Farnese Gallery (1965), no. 127 (ill.).
  • Donald Posner, Annibale Carracci, II (1971), under no. 113.
  • Edmund Schilling and Anthony Blunt, The German Drawings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle and Supplements to the Catalogues of Italian and French Drawings, with a history of the Royal Collection of Drawings (London, 1971), under Wittkower no.100.
  • Jacob Bean, 17th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1979), under no. 104.
  • Diane DeGrazia, Le stampe dei Carracci: con i disegni, le incisioni, le copie e i dipinti connessi: catalogo critico (Bologna, 1984), pp. 240–43, under no. 19 (ill.).
  • Babette Bohn, Italian Masters of the Sixteenth Century 39 (New York, 1996), p. 239 (ill.).
  • Clare Robertson, Drawings by the Carracci from British Collections (Oxford, 1996), p. 138, under no. 87.
  • Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), p. 12.

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