Landscape with Figures by an Estuary with Sailing Boats

c. 1590/1595

Annibale Carracci

Associated Names
Annibale Carracci

Artist, Bolognese, 1560 - 1609

This image features a drawing of a waterside scene. The horizon is low with the water meeting the land and various structures. In the composition, there is a sailboat on the left, buildings on the right, and a figure near the water's edge. The drawing style uses delicate linework with monochromatic brown tones. Other small boats are visible in the distance on the calm water.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Everard Jabach, Paris (?); Pierre Crozat (according to a letter from Bernadette Py); Sir Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)(sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1921, no. 77); purchased by Archibald George B. Russell (born 1879)(Lugt Supp. 2770a)(sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 May 1928, no. 46); (bought by Durlacher, London); John Nicholas Brown, Providence; (David Tunick, New York, 1986); gift to NGA in 1991.

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Exhibition History

1925

  • Exhibition of Italian Art of the Seventeenth Century, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1925, no. 55, pl. XLIX.

1935

  • Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1935, no. 37.

1991

  • Art for the Nation, Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991, 46-47 (entry by Diane De Grazia).

Bibliography

1923

  • Borenius, Tancred. "Drawings in the Collection of Mr. Archibald G. B. Russell" The Connoisseur 66, no. 261, 1923: 10, pl. VII.

1971

  • Andrews, Keith. National Gallery of Scotland, Catalogue of Italian Drawings. Cambridge, 1971, 1: 33, under D 852.

1976

  • Byam Shaw, James. Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford. Oxford, 1976, 1: 249-250, under no. 944.

1984

  • Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, sale cat., Christie's, London, 3 July 1984, under no. 9.

1987

  • Old Master Drawings, sale cat. Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1987, under no. 49.

1991

  • Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.46.

1993

  • Bailey, Stephen Michael, "Carracci Landscape Studies: The Drawings Related to the Recueil de 283 Estampes de Jabach," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993; UMI Dissertation Services, 2:591-592, 985, no. 189d (as circle of J. B. Corneille).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in black ink: 17; by later hand on mount, center verso in violet crayon: A. Collections / 2786

Wikidata ID

Q64536073

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