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Hercules and Cacus, after Annibale Carracci, and the Destruction of Enceladus, after Agostino Carracci

After Annibale Carracci Italian
After Agostino Carracci Italian
1761
Not on view
Directly following his study at the French Academy in Rome, Fragonard traveled in Italy making sketches after Italian artworks for the abbé de Saint-Non, who later had them etched in reverse in his "Recueil de Griffonis." Here Fragonard copied frescoes painted by Annibale and Agostino Carracci over fireplaces in adjacent rooms in the Palazzo Sampieri-Talon, Bologna. The attributions recorded in Fragonard's inscriptions have been reversed by modern scholarship.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Hercules and Cacus, after Annibale Carracci, and the Destruction of Enceladus, after Agostino Carracci
  • Artist: Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris)
  • Artist: After Annibale Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1560–1609 Rome)
  • Artist: After Agostino Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1557–1602 Parma)
  • Date: 1761
  • Medium: Black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
  • Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 11 9/16 in. (20.4 x 29.3 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Paul Moore, 1960
  • Object Number: 60.53
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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