Il Gobbo dei Carracci

Annibale Carracci|Arthur Pond

1736 · Etching and aquatint, brown ink · Drawings and Prints

The painter, art dealer and etcher Arthur Pond created this print in 1736, probably as a series of twenty-five completed in 1742. The title "Il Gobbo dei Carracci" (the Carracci's humpback) comes from an inscription on the related drawing, now in the Robert Lehman Collection at the Met (1975.1.316). It refers to Pietro Paolo Bonzi, a painter in the circle of the Carracci who specialized in landscapes and still-lives. On the basis of an inscription on the drawing, Pond thought Annibale Carracci to have made the original, but more recent scholarship notes that the compact linear contours and precise shading indicate a seventeenth-century Tuscan artist whose precise identity remains to be established.

Artist

Annibale Carracci|Arthur Pond

Date

1736

Medium

Etching and aquatint, brown ink

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953