Drawn to Perfection:Annibale CarracciWorks on Paper

© Deborah Feller

Self-Portrait [Autoritratto col cappello "a quatre'acque"] (April 17, 1593, oil on canvas, 9½ x 7⅞ in [24 x 20 cm]). Galleria Nazionale, Parma, Italy.

A Man Weighing Meat (c. 1582-83, red chalk on beige paper, 1015/16 x 61/16 in [278 x 170 cm]). Collection Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

The Butcher Shop (1583, oil on canvas, 73 x 105 in [185 × 266 cm]). Christ Church

Picture Gallery, Oxford, UK.

A Domestic Scene (1582-1584, pen with brown and gray-black ink, brush with gray and brown wash, over black chalk, 12⅞ x 9¼ in [32.8 x 23.6 cm]). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The Virgin and Child Resting Outside a City Gate (n.d., pen and brown ink, brush with traces of brown wash, on light brown beige paper; traces of framing outlines in pen and brown ink, 7⅜ x 8½ in [18.8 x 21.6 cm]). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The Meeting of Jason and King Aeëtes (c. 1584, pen and black ink with gray-brown wash over black chalk, squared twice in black and red chalk, 10 x 12⅜ in [25.4 x

31.5 cm]). Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany.

The Meeting of Jason and King Aeëtes (c. 1584, fresco). Palazzo Fava, Bologna, Italy.

The Meeting of Jason and King Aeëtes (c. 1584, pen and black ink with gray-brown wash over black chalk, squared twice in

black and red chalk, 10 x 12⅜ in [25.4 x 31.5 cm]). Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany.

Orpheus Holding a Lyre (before 1584, oiled black chalk over black chalk,

heightened with white chalk, on gray-blue laid paper, mounted on wove

paper, 16⅓ x 9⅓ in [41.5 x 23.8 cm[). National Gallery of Art, Ontario,

Canada.

Polyphemus (early 1590s, black chalk with traces of white heightening on blue-gray paper, laid down, 1611/16 x13⅞ in [42.4 x 35.2 cm]). Galleria degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Florence, Italy.

Sheet of Caricatures (c. 1595, ink on paper, 7⅞ x 5⅛ [20.1 x 13.9 cm]). British Museum, London.

Profile Portrait of a Boy (1584-1585), red chalk on ivory paper, 813/16 x 6⅜ in [22.4 x 16.2]). Galleria degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Florence, Italy.

Head of a Boy (c. 1585-1590, black chalk on reddish brown paper, laid down, 227/16 x 915/16 in [316 x 252 cm] including a 2 cm horizontal strip added at the top). Musée du Louvre, Départment des Arts Graphiques, Paris, France.

Head of a Smiling Young Man (c. 1590-92, black chalk on gray-blue paper with added strips at top and bottom, laid down, 153/16 x 97/16 in [358 x 240 cm]). Musée du Louvre, Départment des Arts Graphiques, Paris, France.

Madonna and Child in Glory with Six Saints (c. 1591-92,

San Ludovico Altarpiece). Pinacoteca Nazionale,

Bologna, Italy.

The Lutenist Mascheroni (c. 1593-1594, red chalk heightened with white chalk on reddish brown paper, the lower left corner slightly cut, 163/

16 x 113/16 in [411 x 284 cm]). Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria.

The Lutenist Mascheroni (c. 1593-1594, pen and

brown ink on cream paper, laid down, the

lower left corner cut and made up, 77/16 x 415/16

[188 x 126]). Collection Her Majesty Queen

Elizabeth II.

Portrait of the Lutenist Mascheroni (c. 1593-1594, oil on canvas, [305/16 x 253/16 in 77 x 64 cm]). Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany.

Project for the Decoration of the Farnese Gallery (1597-98, red chalk with pen and brown ink on cream paper, 15 ¼ x 10⅜ in [38.8 x 26.4 cm]). Musée du Louvre, Départment des Arts Graphiques, Paris, France.

Palazzo Farnese Ceiling (fresco, 1597/98-1601). Rome, Italy.

Atlas Herm with Arms Raised (1598-99, black chalk heightened with white on

gray-blue paper, 189/16 x 14¼ in [47.2 x 36.3 cm]). Biblioteca Reale, Turin, Italy.

Atlas Herm (1598-99, red chalk on cream paper, laid down, 13⅝ x

713/16 in [34.5 x 19.8 cm]. Musée du Louvre, Départment des Arts

Graphiques, Paris, France.

A Seated Ignudi with a Garland (1598-99, black chalk heightened with white chalk on gray paper, 16¼ x 16⅛ in [41.2 x 41 cm]). Musée du Louvre, Départment des Arts Graphiques, Paris, France.

Detail of Ignudi and Herms, Palazzo Farnese Ceiling (fresco, 1597/98-1601). Rome, Italy.

Study of a Recumbent Nude, Lying on his Side (n.d, black chalk with white and pink heightening, on gray-blue paper, 14½ x 19⅔ in [36.8 x 49.9 cm]. Royal Library, Windsor, England.

Study of a Recumbent Nude, Viewed from the Head (n.d., black chalk with white

heightening on gray-blue paper, 8½ x 15½ [21.5 x 39.5 cm]). Musée du Louvre,

Cabinet des Dessins, Paris, France.

An Execution (1600-03, pen and brown ink on dark cream paper, laid down, 7½ x 119/16 in [19 x 29.3 cm]). Collection Her Majesty

Queen Elizabeth II.

Danaë (1604-05, pen and brown ink on cream paper, laid down, upper right corner cut, 7⅝ x

10⅛ in [19.4 x 25.7 cm]). Collection Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Titian, Danaë (1545, oil on canvas, 47.2 × 67.7 in [120 × 172 cm]).

Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy.

Self-Portrait on an Easel and Other Studies (c. 1604, pen and ocher-brown ink on cream paper, 9¾ x 7⅛ in [24.8 x 18.1 cm]). Collection Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Self-Portrait on an Easel (c. 1604, oil on canvas).

The State Hermitage Museum, Saint

Petersburg, Russia.

Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) (c. 1544, oil on wood, 34¾ x 25¼ in [88.3 x 64.1 cm]). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Self-Portrait (c. 1600, pen and brown ink on buff paper, laid down on another sheet on which is drawn a decorative border in pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite, 5¼ x 4 in [13.3 x 10.2 cm]). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California.