Standing Boy in a Landscape

1585

Lodovico Carracci (attributed to)

Associated Names
Lodovico Carracci

Artist, Bolognese, 1555 - 1619

The image shows a full-body view of a young boy from behind, standing with a stick in his left hand. The boy's head is slightly turned to the left. He has short, textured hair and is wearing a loose top, baggy trousers, and knee-length boots. There is overgrown foliage on his right and a body of water or similar surface nearby. In the background, there is an architectural structure and lawn.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk on buff laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ann Sutherland Harris

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20.64 × 13.02 cm (8 1/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
    mount: 29.1 × 21.4 cm (11 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.178.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's London, 10 March 1977, no. 146, as attributed to Annibale Carracci); Professor Ann Sutherland Harris, Pittsburgh; (sale, Christie's, New York, 30 January 2018, no. 29, unsold); gift from Prof. Harris to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Pittsburgh Collects: European Drawings, 1500 - 1800. Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, 2004-2005, no. 11 (entry by Sarah Cantor)

Inscriptions

on tablet in image, in red chalk: 1585; by later hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: Annib. Carrache; on verso in red chalk: abbreviated sketch of heads

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