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Look at the boy’s face seen through the bottom of the glass, then at the patch of light the wine carafe throws onto his white shirt.
Annibale Carracci painted this boy drinking in 1582 or 1583, early in the reform of painting that he, his brother Agostino and their cousin Ludovico based on close study of nature. The rough canvas, the plain subject and the face bent by the glass show that approach, which the Cleveland Museum of Art places between the polish of Mannerism and the drama of Caravaggio. In 1896 it was sold in London as a Velázquez.
oil on canvas · Framed: 79 x 67 x 5.5 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Baroque
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- Museum title
- Boy Drinking
- Artist
- Annibale Carracci (Italian, c. 1560–1609)
- Date
- 1582–83
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 79 x 67 x 5.5 cm (31 1/8 x 26 3/8 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 55.8 x 43.7 cm (21 15/16 x 17 3/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.