FJK 025

Carracci Annibale (Italian, Bologna 1560–1609 Rome)

Slave Galley at Work (recto)
Studies of Hand and Composition (verso)

ca. 1585-90
10 9/32 × 10 25/64 in. (261 × 264 mm)

Medium
Red chalk on watermark paper (standing lion turned towards the left?)

Inscription in ink from an unknown hand and numbered bottom right: Annibale Carracci 69
Collector’s mark “Mond” on the back (Lugt 2813a)

Origin

Sir Robert Mond Collection, London
J. F. M. Brackley Collection
Gallery Claude Aubry, Paris
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco (acquired from previous owner on March 7, 1983), JK 3718
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

Paradigmata graphices variorum artificum, by Jan de Bisschop, 1628-1671, Gérard de Lairesse, 1640-1711, Harmanus Fock, 1766-1822, Hermanus Vinkeles, 1745-1817?, Holland, ca. 1671, pl. 28, engraved by Jan de Bisschop. 

BORENIUSTancred (assisted by Rudolf Wittkower), Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by Sir Robert Mond, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937, no. 43, pl. VIa.

Exhibitions

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, p. 71, no. 29, color ill. p. 72.

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 90, no. 38, color ill. p. 91.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 114, no. 41, color ill. p. 115.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 104, no. 40, color ill. p. 105.

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, p. 100, no. 42, color ill. p. 101.