Head of a Faun in a Concave Roundel, probably c. 1595

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 18.1 x 18.7 cm (7 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1972.49.2

Artists / Makers

Agostino Carracci (artist) Bolognese, 1557 - 1602

Image Use

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Inscription

in unknown hand, lower right: A Carracci.; across top verso: 65 Annibale Carracci. A Head of a Bacchus: a / study from the antique: pen & bistre ... Thomas Lawrence

Marks and Labels

Ellesmere (L. Supp.2710b)

Provenance

M. Brunet (according to 1836 Lawrence Gallery catalogue); Samuel Woodburn; Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445); Samuel Woodburn; Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (Lugt 2701b), and by descent (sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1972, no. 29); purchased by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., for NGA, purchase in 1972.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Francis
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir
Sotheby's
Woodburn, Samuel

Exhibition History

1836: The Lawrence Gallery, Sixth Exhibition, Messrs. Woodburn's Gallery, London, 1836, no. 93 (as Annibale).

1954: The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings, Museums and Art Gallery, Leicester, 1954, no. 34 (P. A. Tomory).

1974: NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 29.

Bibliography

1898: Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House. London, 1898: no. 65, as Annibale.

1979: Bohlin, Diane De Grazia. Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family, A Catalogue Raisonne. Washington, 1979: 456, fig. 19a.