Saint Roch dispensing charity. Etching after Annibale Carracci.
- Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.
- Date:
- 1610
- Reference:
- 663579i
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Publication/Creation
[Rome?] : P. Stephanonius formis cum privilegio, 1610.
Physical description
1 print : etching ; platemark 28.7 x 45.4 cm
Lettering
Anibal. Car. invenit
References note
Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Würzburg, 1920-1922, vol. 18, Guido Reni no. 53 (as by G. Reni)
Giovanni Pietro Bellori, The lives of Annibale & Agostino Carracci, translated by Catherine Enggass University Park, Pennsylvania, 1968, p. 13 ("Annibale completed another work for the Scuola di San Rocco in the City of Reggio, distinguished twofold in history by the great renown of the etching of the Almsgiving by the same Guido")
Evelina Borea e Ginevra Mariani, Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori, Roma 1986, no. XXVII.1, p. 65
Veronika Birke, Italian masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, The illustrated Bartsch, New York: Abaris Books, 1982, 4003.049 S2 (as by F. Brizio)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 663579i
Reproduction note
After: painting by Annibale Carracci for the confraternity of Saint Roch in Reggio Emilia, ca. 1595, later transferred to the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden. The etching is in reverse to the painting and has additional figures on the right
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Album of engravings compiled by Pietro Fancelli
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