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Drunken Silenus and Decorative Sketches: Studies for the Tazza Farnese (recto); Two Putti Fighting: Study for the Galleria Farnese (verso), 1599/1601. Pen and iron gall ink, with brush and brown wash on cream laid paper edge mounted to cream laid paper (recto), and pen and iron gall ink on cream laid paper with decorative border in pen and brown ink (verso).
Pen and iron gall ink, with brush and brown wash on cream laid paper edge mounted to cream laid paper (recto), and pen and iron gall ink on cream laid paper with decorative border in pen and brown ink (verso) · Primary support: 20.4 × 17.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Drunken Silenus and Decorative Sketches: Studies for the Tazza Farnese (recto); Two Putti Fighting: Study for the Galleria Farnese (verso)
- Artist
- Annibale Carracci Italian, 1560-1609
- Date
- 1599/1601
- Medium
- Pen and iron gall ink, with brush and brown wash on cream laid paper edge mounted to cream laid paper (recto), and pen and iron gall ink on cream laid paper with decorative border in pen and brown ink (verso)
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 20.4 × 17.7 cm (8 1/16 × 7 in.); With overlays: 28.4 × 17.7 cm (11 3/16 × 7 in.)
- Credit line
- The Regenstein Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1560–1609
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.