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River Landscape with Boats

c. 1590

Annibale Carracci

(Italian, c. 1560–1609)

Italy, 16th century

Pen and brown ink

Support: Light brown laid paper lined with discolored wove paper

Sheet: 22.3 x 40.5 cm (8 3/4 x 15 15/16 in.); Image: 22.3 x 39.9 cm (8 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1972.101

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

SECONDARY SUPPORT (now removed), in black ink: 77 [crossed out]. 91 Agostino Carracci . A Landscape with a river & boats one full of company [last four words inserted] : executed with a pen. Size 8"3/4 x 16"3/4 [crossed out] / From the Collections of M. Mariette & Sir Thomas Lawrence .

Provenance
P.J. Mariette (Lugt 2097, stamp, lower left, in black ink)
Comte Moriz von Fries (Lugt 2903, blind stamp, lower left)
Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445, blind stamp, lower left)
Francis Egerton, First Earl of Ellesmere (Lugt suppl. 2710b, stamp, lower right, in black ink)
P.J. Mariette (Lugt 2097, stamp, lower right, in black ink)
Citations
Tomory, Peter. The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings. Leicester: Museums and Art Gallery, 1954. Mentioned: p. 19, no. 43
Mahon, Denis. Mostra dei Carracci. Bologna: Edizioni Alfa, 1956. Mentioned: pp. 161-162, no. 240
Holland, Ralph. The Carracci Drawings and Paintings. Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1961. Mentioned: no. 96, no. 201
Levey, Michael. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools. London: National Gallery, 1971. Mentioned: p. 78, ref. 2.
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 115 archive.org
Bailey, Stephen Michael. Carracci Landscape Studies: The Drawings Related to the "Recueil De 283 Estampes De Jabach". Thesis Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara 1993. Mentioned: pp. 270-271, 650, fig. 51a; reproduced: p. 763
Py, Bernadette, and Françoise Viatte. Everhard Jabach, collectionneur (1618-1695): les dessins de l'inventaire de 1695. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001. Mentioned: pp. 78-79, no. 195
Rosenberg, Pierre, Colin B. Bailey, and Sue Welsh Reed. La vente Mariette: le catalogue illustré par Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. Milano: Electa, 2011. Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 49-50 (117-118)
PY, Bernadette, La collection de dessins italiens de Pierre Crozat (1665-1740): L'oeil de Mariette, Louvre, 2015. Mentioned: p. 307. mini-site.louvre.fr
Rosenberg, Pierre, Laure Barthélemy-Labeeuw, Marie-Liesse Delcroix, Stefania Lumetta, and Pierre-Jean Mariette. Les dessins de la collection Mariette: écoles italienne et espagnole. Paris : Somogy Éditions d’art, 2019. Reproduced and mentioned: p. 270, I371
Exhibition history

CMA, Concept, Dogma, and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650 (Aug. 27-Oct. 20, 1991).

CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).

CMA, National Schools of Style (June 14-Sept. 18, 1983).

CMA, Visions of Landscape: East and West (Feb. 17-Mar. 21, 1982).

CMA, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles (Mar. 6-Apr. 22, 1979), no. 37, illus., pp. 13, 15-6, 56, 73.

CMA, "Year in Review for 1972" (Feb. 27-Mar. 18, 1973), cma Bulletin 60 (1973), p. 110 no. 146, illus. p. 76.

Hamburg, Kunsthalle, The Ellesmere Collection of Drawings by the Carracci and Other Bolognese Masters (1972).

Newcastle upon Tyne, King's College, The Carracci: Drawings and Paintings (1961), no. 96, ment. under no 201.

Bologna, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Mostra dei Carracci Disegni (1956), no. 240.

London, P. and D. Colnaghi and Co., A Loan Exhibition of Drawings by the Carracci and Other Masters from the Collection of the Earl of Ellesmere (1955), no. 19.

Leicester Museums and Art Gallery, The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings (1954), no. 43, pp. 4, 19, pl. XVII.

London, Lawrence Gallery, A Catalogue of One Hundred Original Drawings by Lodovico, Agostino, and Annibale Carracci, Collected by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Late President of the Royal Academy (1836), no. 64, p. 23.

Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).

Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1986-March 1, 1987).

Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).

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