Description
Agostino Carracci’s training as an engraver and his careful study of the human form are evident in the execution of this portrait of his son Antonio, both in the vigorous strokes of the background and in the structure of the face. Antonio was probably twelve or thirteen years old when his father made this portrait of him.
Provenance
M. Paignon Dijonval (1708–1792) [see Lugt 2520]; by descent to his son, Charles-Gilbert Viscount Morel de Vindé (1759–1842), Paris [see Lugt 2520; Viscount Morel de Vindé and Benard 1810]. Thomas Dimsdale (1758–1823) London [his stamp (Lugt 2426), verso, lower left, in black (now illegible)]. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London [London 1836]; sold by Samuel Woodburn (1786–1853), London, to Lord Francis Egerton (1800–1857), 1st Earl of Ellesmere and 1st Duke of Sutherland, London [his stamp (Lugt suppl. 2710b), recto, lower right in black]; by descent; sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 11, 1972, Ellesmere sale, lot 30, to Walter Feilchenfeldt [Chicago 1978]; sold by Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, to the Art Institute, 1973.
Accession Number
44259
Medium
Red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
36.1 × 25.6 cm (14 1/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
Classification
chalk
Credit Line
Clarence Buckingham Collection
