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Annibale Carracci
1560-1609
Shepherd with Pipes, and Two Dancing Children; Virgin and Child with Heads of Four Spectators
Pen and brown ink on paper.
6 1/16 x 8 9/16 inches (153 x 217 mm)
Gift of Otto Manley.
1978.17
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Watermark: none.
Study for lost painting Adoration of the Shepherds.
Executed on verso of rare proof state of the artist's etching "Christ Crowned with Thorns", before letters (Bartsch, XVIII, 182, no. 3. Etching in later state is inscribed, "Annib. Carracius in. et. fecit. 1606).
Provenance:
Otto Manley, Scarsdale, New York.
Associated names:
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.
Bibliography:
Nineteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980 / edited by Charles Ryskamp. New York : The Library, 1981, p. 183.
Drawings from New York Collections, II, 1967, no. 14, repr.
Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family: A Catalogue Raisonné, exhibition catalogue by Diane DeGrazia Bohlin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 22, fig. 22b.
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