Lodovico Carracci

Bolognese, 1555 - 1619

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Lodovico Carracci, The Nativity with Saints Francis and Agnes, c. 1605, pen and brown ink and brown wash with white heightening over black chalk; traces of incising, Adolph Caspar Miller Fund, 1975.52.1

The Nativity with Saints Francis and Agnes

Lodovico Carracci · c. 1605 · pen and brown ink and brown wash with white heightening over black chalk; traces of incising ·  Accession ID  1975.52.1

Lodovico Carracci, Madonna and Child with Angels, c. 1595/1610, etching and engraving, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.65.18

Madonna and Child with Angels

Lodovico Carracci · c. 1595/1610 · etching and engraving ·  Accession ID  1972.65.18

A young woman sleeps with her cheek resting on the back of one hand next to a woman holding a nude baby and two winged angels in this vertical painting. All the people have pale skin and they nearly fill the composition. The sleeping woman, Saint Catherine, rests her elbow on a stone table covered by a golden yellow cloth, which also wraps around her shoulders. Her knees are angled to our right and her face tips onto her hand to our left. Her curly, light brown hair is pulled back. She has delicately arching eyebrows, a straight nose, and her pink lips are closed. Her pale, olive-green, floor-length dress is tied at the waist with a mauve-purple sash. She wears a gold ring with a gray stone on the third finger of her left hand, which rests in her lap. To our right, the second woman, Mary, leans over Saint Catherine. Mary’s head is angled to our left, toward the sleeping saint, and she looks to our right, down past the baby. Mary’s complexion is has a faint gray cast, and her brown hair is covered by a white cloth, which is surrounded by a halo of light. A dark garment covers her shoulders over a scarlet-red dress. The baby sits on Mary’s lap with his body facing our left, toward Saint Catherine. He leans our way and looks at us with dark eyes. Light catches his brown curls and he has chubby cheeks, arms, and legs. Along the bottom edge of the canvas, a puff of gray cloud near the lower right corner seems to support Mary’s feet. A curving, charoal-gray spike in the lower left corner of the painting is partially covered by the yellow drapery. Behind Saint Catherine and over her head, next to Mary, are two winged angels with dark blond, curly hair. The angel closer to us rests one hand on the pine-green pillow behind Saint Catherine’s head and turns to look past Mary in profile, lips parted. The angel behind looks down with hands together in prayer. Light falls across the scene from our right. The upper right corner behind Mary is filled with brick-red clouds that, upon closer examination, are filled with faces looking onto the scene.
Lodovico Carracci, The Dream of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, c. 1593, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.59

The Dream of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Lodovico Carracci · c. 1593 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1952.5.59

Lodovico Carracci, Alexander and Thaïs Setting Fire to Persepolis, probably c. 1592, pen and brown ink with brown wash and white heightening on paper washed orange-brown, William Nelson Cromwell Fund, 1975.55.1

Alexander and Thaïs Setting Fire to Persepolis

Lodovico Carracci · probably c. 1592 · pen and brown ink with brown wash and white heightening on paper washed orange-brown ·  Accession ID  1975.55.1

Lodovico Carracci, Standing Boy in a Landscape, 1585, red chalk on buff laid paper, Gift of Ann Sutherland Harris, 2018.178.1

Standing Boy in a Landscape

Lodovico Carracci · 1585 · red chalk on buff laid paper ·  Accession ID  2018.178.1

Lodovico Carracci, Madonna and Child with Angels, 1595/1610, etching, engraving, and drypoint on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2002.44.1

Madonna and Child with Angels

Lodovico Carracci · 1595/1610 · etching, engraving, and drypoint on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2002.44.1

Lodovico Carracci, The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saints George and William, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.49.3

The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saints George and William

Lodovico Carracci · · pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1972.49.3

Lodovico Carracci, The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, pen and brown and gray ink over black chalk on laid paper; with irregularly cut and torn patches attached and drawn with compositional corrections in pen and brown ink and black chalk, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.92

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Lodovico Carracci · · pen and brown and gray ink over black chalk on laid paper; with irregularly cut and torn patches attached and drawn with compositional corrections in pen and brown ink and black chalk ·  Accession ID  2009.70.92

Johann Gottlieb Prestel, The Ascension of the Virgin, 1776, etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper, laid down on Liechtenstein album page, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, 2018.91.48

The Ascension of the Virgin

Johann Gottlieb Prestel · 1776 · etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper, laid down on Liechtenstein album page ·  Accession ID  2018.91.48

Italian 17th Century, Vision of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, late 17th century, etching with engraving on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2018.58.1

Vision of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Italian 17th Century · late 17th century · etching with engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2018.58.1

Bibliography

1841

  • Malvasia, Carlo Cesare. Felsina Pittrice. Vite de Pittori Bolognesi con aggiunte correzioni e note inedite dell'autore di Giampietro Zanotti e di altri scrittori. 2 vols. Originally published 1688. Bologna, 1841. Reprint. 1974: 1:264-368.

1939

  • Bodmer, Heinrich. Lodovico Carracci. Burg-bei-Magdeburg, 1939.

1956

  • Mostra dei Carracci. Dipinti. Exh. cat. Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1956.

1976

  • Volpe, Carlo. "Sugli inizi di Ludovico Carracci." Paragone 27/317-319 (1976): 115-129.

1984

  • Feigenbaum, Gail. "Lodovico Carracci: A Study of his Later Career and a Catalogue of his Paintings." Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1984.

1996

  • De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 54-55.