Attributed to Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)
Attributed to Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)

细节
Attributed to Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)

The Head of the dying Alexander after the Antique

black and white chalk, on blue paper, irregular
322 x 268mm.
来源
Conte Jacopo Durazzo, according to an inscription on the mount

拍品专文

Similar to Annibale's drawing in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam after the same sculpture, A. Weston-Lewis, Annibale Carracci and the Antique, Master Drawings, XXX, 1992, fig. 26. As Weston-Lewis notes, the head of the ignudo to the left of Jupiter and Juno in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, was inspired by the sculpture