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Portrait of Annibale Carracci

Maker

(artist)
1625-1713

(etcher)
died 1692

(publisher)
act.1649-1680 (Life dates)

Title

Portrait of Annibale Carracci

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 41.2 cm
Width: 41 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.896

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: “D.O.M.// ANNIBAL CARRACCIUS BONONIENSIS//HIC EST//RAPHAELI SANCTIO URBINATI// UT ARTE INGENIO FAMA SIC TUMULO PROXIUMUS// PAR UTRIQUE FUNUS ET GLORIA/AQUAM VIRTUTI RAPHAEL TULIT//ANNIBAL INIQUAM/DECESSIT DIE XV IULII AN MDCCIX AT XXXXIX//CAROLUS MARATTUS SUMMI PICTORIS//NOMEN ET STUDIA COLENS P. AN MDCLXXIIII//ARTE MEA VIVIT NATURA ET VIVIT IN ARTE//MENS DECUS ET NOMEN CAETERA MORTIS ERANT”; lower left edge, black ink: “Petrus Aquila sculp”; lower centre edge, black ink: “Carolus Marattus Inv. et delin.”; lower right edge, black ink: “Io. Iacob. de Rubeis formis Romae ad Temp. S. Mariae de Pace cu. Priv. S. Pont.”.

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