LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on paper, laid down on panel

Measurements:

17.52 in. (44.50 cm.) (height) by 10.51 in. (26.70 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, Wildenstein, . The Italian Heritage: An Exhibition of Works of Art Lent from American Collections , 17 May - 29 August 1967, no. 35;. London, Kate Ganz Ltd., Italian Drawings 1500-1800 , 30 June - 10 July 1987, no. 13; . New York, Jason McCoy Inc., Heads and Portraits: Drawings from Piero di Cosimo to Jasper Johns , 6 May - 12 June 1993, no. 6; . New York, Adam Williams Fine Art Ltd., 1-30 May 2003; and London, Jean-Luc Baroni, 3-26 July 2003, Master Drawings , no. 13; . Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, 22 September 2006 - 7 January 2007; and Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, 25 January - 6 May 2007, Annibale Carracci , no. II.3; . London, Ordovas, Painting from Life: Carracci Freud , 5 October - 15 December 2012, no. 1

Literature:

D. Posner, . Annibale Carracci: A Study in the Reform of Italian Painting around 1590 , London and New York 1971, p. 25, no. 53, reproduced plate 53;. Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings by the Carracci and other Bolognese Masters , Sale, London, Sotheby's, 11 July 1972, p. 123, under lot 55; . D.S. Pepper, 'Annibale Carracci ritrattista', in Arte Illustrata , no. 6, 1973, pp. 131, 134 and 137, note 15, reproduced fig. 9; . P.J. Cooney and G. Malafarina, L'opera completa di Annibale Carracci , Milan 1976, pp. 99-100, no. 53, reproduced; . A.O. Cavina, 'Studies from Life: Annibale Carracci's Paintings of the Blind', in Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries: A Symposium , Washington 1987, pp. 98-99, reproduced fig. 147; . C. Robertson, 'Annibale Carracci and Invenzione : Medium and Function in the Early Drawings', in Master Drawings , vol. XXXV, no. 1, 1997, p. 40, note 92; . C. Loisel, 'Ludovico, Agostino, Annibale Carracci', in Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins , Inventaire Général des Dessins Italiens , no. 7, 2004, p. 221, under no. 445; . D. Benati, in Annibale Carracci , exh. cat., Milan 2006, p. 98, no. II.3, reproduced p. 99; . S.B. Wilson, 'The Portrait Drawings of Annibale Carracci: Representations of Masculinity and Homosociality in early modern Bologna', unpublished M.A. Thesis, Texas Christian University, 2009, p. 28, reproduced p. 67, fig. 9; . P. Ordovas, Painting from Life: Carracci Freud , London 2012, no. 1, reproduced in colour

Provenance:

With Colnaghi, London, 1956;. Paul and Eula Ganz, New York, by September 1962, . Thence by descent to Kate Ganz; . With Kate Ganz Ltd., London, until at least 1993; . Private collection, London; . With Jean-Luc Baroni, London, by 2003; . Where acquired by the present owner