A boatman rowing
Red Chalk
ca. late 16th century (made)
ca. late 16th century (made)
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| Place of origin |
Red chalk drawing depicting a boatman rowing.
Object details
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| Title | A boatman rowing (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Red chalk drawing |
| Brief description | Red chalk drawing depicting a boatman rowing, a copy after Lodovico Carracci. Italy, ca. late 16th century. |
| Physical description | Red chalk drawing depicting a boatman rowing. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings, Volume Two: 17th-18th Century , London, 1979, p.32-33 , cat. n. 658
The following is the full text of the entry:
copy after
CARRACCI, LODOVICO
658
Recto A boatman pressing on an oar or pole
Red chalk
9 1/4 x 6 3/4 (235 x 171) CAI.832
Verso Fragment of an offset from a red chalk drawing (life size) of a man's head, showing eye, forehead and ear only, in profile
Inscribed in ink in an old hand 'Lodovic Carracci'
PROVENANCE Ionides Bequest 1901 (Lugt 488)
LITERATURE Ionides Catalogue, p. 16 (as anonymous)
The figure on the recto occurs in a drawing by Lodovico in the British Museum, a study for the lost painting of the Flight into
Egypt known as 'La barca di Lodovico'. (Fawkener C2.Ff.2: illustrated in Bodmer, pl. 139.)
Not illustrated |
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| Accession number | CAI.832 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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