Satyr Holding a Roundel

1597/1600

Annibale Carracci

Artist, Bolognese, 1560 - 1609

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk on gray-blue paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 38.3 x 25.9 cm (15 1/16 x 10 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1978.44.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Armand Louis de Mestral de Saint Saphorin; Madeleine and Marguerite de Mestral; Rene de Cerenville; Nathan Chaikin, New York; David Daniels, New York, 1968 (sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 April 1978, no. 21); David Tunick for NGA, purchase in 1978.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings: Form and Function, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1974, no. 44.

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

2023

  • Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

1974

  • Pillsbury/Caldwell 1974, 44.

Inscriptions

in later hand, upper right verso on mount: 5016 DANIELS; lower right verso on mount: Annibal Carrache / (Etude p[ou]r le Palais Farnese) / a Rome / In le Collection Armand Mestral/a Vienne/ ... a M.M...Tschana-de Mestral

Wikidata ID

Q64536072

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