Il Gobbo dei Carracci
The painter, art dealer and etcher Arthur Pond created this print in 1736, probably as a series of twenty-five completed in 1742. The title "Il Gobbo dei Carracci" (the Carracci's humpback) comes from an inscription on the related drawing, now in the Robert Lehman Collection at the Met (1975.1.316). It refers to Pietro Paolo Bonzi, a painter in the circle of the Carracci who specialized in landscapes and still-lives.
On the basis of an inscription on the drawing, Pond thought Annibale Carracci to have made the original, but more recent scholarship notes that the compact linear contours and precise shading indicate a seventeenth-century Tuscan artist whose precise identity remains to be established.
On the basis of an inscription on the drawing, Pond thought Annibale Carracci to have made the original, but more recent scholarship notes that the compact linear contours and precise shading indicate a seventeenth-century Tuscan artist whose precise identity remains to be established.
Artwork Details
- Title: Il Gobbo dei Carracci
- Artist: Arthur Pond (British, London 1701–1758 London)
- Artist: Formerly thought to to be after Annibale Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1560–1609 Rome)
- Date: 1736
- Medium: Etching and aquatint, brown ink
- Dimensions: sheet: 11 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (29.6 x 19.4 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
- Object Number: 53.600.2040
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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