Portrait of the Artist's Son, Antonio Carracci
Agostino Carracci
1592–1595
- Medium
- Red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 36.1 × 25.6 cm (14 1/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- chalk
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)chalklaid paperprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)red chalk
About
Agostino Carracci’s training as an engraver and his careful study of the human form are evident in the execution of this portrait of his son Antonio, both in the vigorous strokes of the background and in the structure of the face. Antonio was probably twelve or thirteen years old when his father made this portrait of him.
