A woman personifying night carries two babies over the land, representing sleep and death. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1764, after Annibale Carracci.

[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1764?]

1 print : etching ; image 27.2 x 40.5 cm

Anibale Caracci inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp. Londra 1764.

G. Malafarina and J.P. Cooney, L'opera completa di Annibale Carracci, Milano 1976, no. 129a (drawing in Dresden)

Wellcome Collection 11680i

After a drawing latterly in the Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, no. C 455 (Malafarina, loc. cit.). The drawing is a study for a painting by Annibale Carracci probably dating from 1602-3 in the Musée Condé, Chantilly. The Chantilly version was commissioned by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese for the Palazetto Farnese in Rome; according to the Base Joconde website (2019), it was the Chantilly version that was engraved by Bartolozzi. There is a related painting in the Royal Collection at Windsor. According to the Royal Collection catalogue (no. RCIN 403246), the Windsor painting is an old copy of the Chantilly painting