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Study of Hercules Resting, with Separate Studies of His Head and Foot (recto); Rectangular grid design (verso)
Provenance
Emile Wauters, Paris [stamp (Lugt 911) recto, lower left, in black]; sold, Frederick Muller and Cie, Amsterdam, June 15, 1926, possibly part of lot 246 (as Pierre Puget). Private collection, Birmingham, England; by descent; sold, Sotheby's, London, Dec. 1, 1966, lot 84 (as Pierre Puget). Colnaghi, London; sold, Sotheby's, London, Oct. 10, 1974, lot 295 (attributed to Pierre Puget). Mathias Polakovits, Paris [stamp (not in Lugt) recto, lower right, in black]; by descent; sold, Sotheby's, New York, Jan. 28, 1998, lot 18 (as Annibale Carracci). Thomas Williams Fine Art, London, 1999; sold to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, July 6, 1999; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
London, Thomas Williams Fine Art, Old Master Drawings, 1999, cat. 11. Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 19 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 19, fig. 3, p. 133, GC 26, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
Klaus Herding, Pierre Puget: Das bildnerische Werk (Gebr. Mann, 1970), p. 209, under no. 103. Diane De Grazia, "Carracci Drawings in Britain and the State of Carracci Studies,” Master Drawings 36, 3 (1998), p. 297. Daniele Benati et al., The Drawings of Annibale Carracci, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, 1999), p. 136, fig. 2, under cat. 34. Diane De Grazia et al., Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000), p. 46, under cat. 13. Silvia Ginzburg Carignani, Annibale Carracci a Roma: Gli Affreschi di Palazzo Farnese (Donzelli, 2000), p. 39 n. 7. Klaus Herding, Pierre Puget (catalogue raisonné, forthcoming), under rejected attributions.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Annibale Carracci / Italian, 1560–1609
- Date
- 1595/97
- Medium
- Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 25.9 × 39.5 cm (10 1/4 × 15 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.838
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00006027
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