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Follow the even, slanting hatching that fills the background around his head, then read the old inscription that names Antonio at the lower left.
Agostino Carracci drew his son Antonio in red chalk when the boy was probably twelve or thirteen. His training as an engraver shows in the firm, parallel strokes of the background, and his study of the body in the solid build of the face. The sheet later belonged to Sir Thomas Lawrence, whose collection of Carracci drawings was shown in London in 1836.
Red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper · 36.1 × 25.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Baroque
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- Museum title
- Portrait of the Artist's Son, Antonio Carracci
- Artist
- Agostino Carracci Italian, 1557-1602
- Date
- 1592/95
- Medium
- Red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 36.1 × 25.6 cm (14 1/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.