Agostino Carracci

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Agostino Carracci

1557-1602

Two Dragons, with Details of Their Heads, and Half-Length Studies of Four Further Dragons. Verso: Forest

ca. 1590-1600

Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, on blue paper washed with blue-gray; verso: brush and brown ink, with white opaque watercolor.

6 3/8 x 13 3/4 inches (163 x 348 mm)

Gift of Lincoln Kirstein.

1960.20

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Notes:

Watermark: none.
Both recto and verso are studies for details of stage design of "Apollo and the Python", one of the six Florentine Intermezzi of 1589.
Formerly attributed to Bernardo Buontalenti, Florence 1531-1608 Florence.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Ag. Carracci" (almost completely effaced); on verso, at upper center, in graphite, "Celini".

Provenance:

Lionel Lucas (1822-1862), London (Lugt S. 1733a); Claude Lucas; his sale, 9 December 1949, lot 84, one of 4 drawings, as Cellini; Durlacher Brothers, New York, 1951; from whom purchased by Lincoln Kirstein, New York.

Associated names:

Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Alternate attribution.
Anonymous, Italian School, 17th cent., Alternate attribution.
Buontalenti, Bernardo, 1536-1608, Formerly attributed to.
Lucas, Lionel, 1822-1862, former owner.
Lucas, Claude, former owner.
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996, former owner.

Bibliography:

Iowa City 1951, no. 24a; Fellows Report 1961, 79-81; Review of Acquisitions, 1969, 150; Madison 1973, no. 38; Washington 1979, 270, n. 3; Blumenthal 1986, 91, 117, no. 189.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Eleventh Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1961. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1961, p. 79-81.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 150.

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