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AT-00002733Portrait of the Artist's Son, Antonio Carracci
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "Ritrato di Antonio Caraggi da Agostino"; inscribed verso, lower left, in pen and brown ink (visible through mount): "Ritratto da Antonio Caracci, del. par Agostino"
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.
Exhibition history
London, The Lawrence Gallery, "6th Exhibition, One Hundred Original Drawings by Lodovico, Agostino, and Annibale Carracci, collected by Sir Thomas Lawrence," 1836, p. 17, cat. 45. Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House (London, 1898), cat. 84. Leicester Museums and Art Gallery, "The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings," 1954, p. 16, cat. 31, pl. X. London, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., "A Loan Exhibition of Drawings by the Carracci and Other Masters," January 25-February 22, 1955, n.p., cat. 35. Newcastle upon Tyne, The Hatton Gallery, "The Carracci, Drawings and Paintings," November-December 1961, n.p., cat. 40. The Art Institute of Chicago, "European Portraits 1600-1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 8-September 11, 1978, pp. 96-8, cat. 23 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, pp. 45-6, cat. 46, pl. 55, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.
Publications
Charles-Gilbert Viscount Morel de Vindé and Benard, Cabinet de M. Paignon Dijonval: état Détaillé et Raisonné des Dessins et Estampes dont il est Composé (Paris, 1810), p. 33, no. 56. The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1973), pp. 15 (ill.) and 33. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 112, no. 4A8. Diane DeGrazia Bohlin, Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family (Washington, 1979), pp. 47 and 66, fig. P. Roberto Zapperi, "I ritratti di Antonio Carracci," Paragone, 38 (1987), pp. 17-22, pl. 1. Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors). Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 20
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Agostino Carracci / Italian, 1557-1602
- Date
- 1592/95
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1973.152
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