The document provides descriptions and details of over 30 drawings and paintings by the Italian artist Annibale Carracci from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The works showcase Carracci's mastery of drawing in materials like red chalk, black chalk, pen and ink, and include portraits, mythological scenes, domestic interiors, and preparatory studies. Many of the pieces are held in major art museums across Europe and depict subjects from throughout Carracci's career like self-portraits, biblical scenes, and illustrations for fresco projects.

1. Drawn to Perfection:
Annibale Carracci
Works on Paper
© Deborah Feller

2. Self-Portrait [Autoritratto col cappello
"a quatre'acque"] (April 17, 1593, oil on
canvas, 9½ x 7⅞ in [24 x 20 cm]).
Galleria Nazionale, Parma, Italy.

3. A Man Weighing Meat (c. 1582-83, red chalk on
beige paper, 1015/16 x 61/16 in [278 x 170 cm]).
Collection Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
The Butcher Shop (1583, oil on canvas, 73 x 105 in [185
× 266 cm]). Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, UK.

4. A Domestic Scene (1582-1584, pen with brown and
gray-black ink, brush with gray and brown wash,
over black chalk, 12⅞ x 9¼ in [32.8 x 23.6 cm]).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

5. The Virgin and Child Resting Outside a
City Gate (n.d., pen and brown ink,
brush with traces of brown wash, on
light brown beige paper; traces of
framing outlines in pen and brown ink,
7⅜ x 8½ in [18.8 x 21.6 cm]). The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

6. The Meeting of Jason and King Aeëtes (c. 1584,
pen and black ink with gray-brown wash over black
chalk, squared twice in black and red chalk, 10 x
12⅜ in [25.4 x 31.5 cm]). Staatliche Graphische
Sammlung, Munich, Germany.
The Meeting of Jason and King Aeëtes (c. 1584, fresco).
Palazzo Fava, Bologna, Italy.

7. The Meeting of Jason and King Aeëtes (c. 1584, pen and black ink with gray-
brown wash over black chalk, squared twice in black and red chalk, 10 x 12⅜
in [25.4 x 31.5 cm]). Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany.
Orpheus Holding a Lyre (before 1584, oiled
black chalk over black chalk, heightened with
white chalk, on gray-blue laid paper, mounted
on wove paper, 16⅓ x 9⅓ in [41.5 x 23.8 cm[).
National Gallery of Art, Ontario, Canada.

8. Polyphemus (early 1590s, black chalk with
traces of white heightening on blue-gray paper,
laid down, 1611/16 x13⅞ in [42.4 x 35.2 cm]).
Galleria degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe,
Florence, Italy.

9. Sheet of Caricatures (c. 1595, ink on
paper, 7⅞ x 5⅛ [20.1 x 13.9 cm]).
British Museum, London.

10. Profile Portrait of a Boy (1584-1585), red chalk
on ivory paper, 813/16 x 6⅜ in [22.4 x 16.2]).
Galleria degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe,
Florence, Italy.

11. Head of a Boy (c. 1585-1590, black chalk on
reddish brown paper, laid down, 227/16 x 915/16 in
[316 x 252 cm] including a 2 cm horizontal strip
added at the top). Musée du Louvre,
Départment des Arts Graphiques, Paris, France.

12. Head of a Smiling Young Man (c. 1590-92, black chalk on
gray-blue paper with added strips at top and bottom, laid
down, 153/16 x 97/16 in [358 x 240 cm]). Musée du Louvre,
Départment des Arts Graphiques, Paris, France.
Madonna and Child in Glory with
Six Saints (c. 1591-92, San
Ludovico Altarpiece).
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna,
Italy.

13. The Lutenist Mascheroni (c. 1593-1594, red chalk
heightened with white chalk on reddish brown
paper, the lower left corner slightly cut, 163/
16 x
113/16 in [411 x 284 cm]). Graphische Sammlung
Albertina, Vienna, Austria.
The Lutenist Mascheroni (c.
1593-1594, pen and brown
ink on cream paper, laid
down, the lower left corner
cut and made up, 77/16 x
415/16 [188 x 126]).
Collection Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II.
Portrait of the Lutenist
Mascheroni (c. 1593-1594, oil
on canvas, [305/16 x 253/16 in 77
x 64 cm]). Gemäldegalerie Alte
Meister, Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen, Dresden,
Germany.

14. Project for the Decoration of the Farnese Gallery
(1597-98, red chalk with pen and brown ink on
cream paper, 15 ¼ x 10⅜ in [38.8 x 26.4 cm]).
Musée du Louvre, Départment des Arts
Graphiques, Paris, France.

15. Palazzo Farnese Ceiling
(fresco, 1597/98-1601).
Rome, Italy.

16. Atlas Herm with Arms Raised (1598-99, black
chalk heightened with white on gray-blue paper,
189/16 x 14¼ in [47.2 x 36.3 cm]). Biblioteca Reale,
Turin, Italy.
Atlas Herm (1598-99, red chalk on cream
paper, laid down, 13⅝ x 713/16 in [34.5 x
19.8 cm]. Musée du Louvre, Départment
des Arts Graphiques, Paris, France.

17. A Seated Ignudi with a Garland (1598-99, black chalk
heightened with white chalk on gray paper, 16¼ x 16⅛ in
[41.2 x 41 cm]). Musée du Louvre, Départment des Arts
Graphiques, Paris, France.
Detail of Ignudi and Herms, Palazzo Farnese Ceiling (fresco,
1597/98-1601). Rome, Italy.

18. Study of a Recumbent Nude, Lying on his Side
(n.d, black chalk with white and pink heightening,
on gray-blue paper, 14½ x 19⅔ in [36.8 x 49.9
cm]. Royal Library, Windsor, England.
Study of a Recumbent Nude, Viewed from the Head
(n.d., black chalk with white heightening on gray-
blue paper, 8½ x 15½ [21.5 x 39.5 cm]). Musée du
Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins, Paris, France.

19. An Execution (1600-03, pen and brown ink on dark cream paper, laid down,
7½ x 119/16 in [19 x 29.3 cm]). Collection Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

20. Danaë (1604-05, pen and brown ink on cream paper,
laid down, upper right corner cut, 7⅝ x 10⅛ in [19.4 x
25.7 cm]). Collection Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Titian, Danaë (1545, oil on canvas, 47.2 ×
67.7 in [120 × 172 cm]). Museo
Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy.

21. Self-Portrait on an Easel and
Other Studies (c. 1604, pen and
ocher-brown ink on cream paper,
9¾ x 7⅛ in [24.8 x 18.1 cm]).
Collection Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II.
Self-Portrait on an Easel (c.
1604, oil on canvas). The
State Hermitage Museum,
Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli),
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) (c.
1544, oil on wood, 34¾ x 25¼ in [88.3 x
64.1 cm]). The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York.

22. Self-Portrait (c. 1600, pen and brown ink
on buff paper, laid down on another
sheet on which is drawn a decorative
border in pen and black ink with gray
wash over graphite, 5¼ x 4 in [13.3 x 10.2
cm]). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los
Angeles, California.