Wilton album, folio 41: The Drunken Silenus (Tazza Farnese)
Annibale Carracci
ca. 1597–1600 · Engraving printed from shallow silver cup · Drawings and Prints
On folio 41 of the Wilton Album For more information on the Wilton album see entry for 27.78.1(1-428) The impression was taken from a shallow silver vessel - the so-called Tazza Farnese - engraved by Annibale Carracci for Cardinal Odoardo Farnese, and now in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. Carracci produced a number of preparatory drawings for this design: a highly developed one is at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1972.133.4). For the Paniere Farnese, engraved by Francesco Villamena after Carracci, thought to have been a companion piece for this object, see the entry for 27.78.1(149).
- Artist
- Annibale Carracci
- Date
- ca. 1597–1600
- Medium
- Engraving printed from shallow silver cup
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
