Nov 03, 2021 - Sale 2586

Sale 2586 - Lot 520

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ANNIBALE CARRACCI (CIRCLE OF)
(Bologna 1560-1609 Rome)
Seated Male Nude, with Arm Raised.

Red chalk on cream laid paper. 195x144 mm; 7 3/4x5 3/4 inches. Inscribed "Sa. di Verona" in ink, lower right recto.

Provenance: Private collection, New York.

This drawing of an ignudo is most likely a study for a figure in a ceiling fresco. It recalls figures in Carracci's fresco cycle The Loves of the Gods, 1597-1608, in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, and other fresco cycles by the artist and his workshop.