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Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1595)
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Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1595)

A man as Bacchus drinking wine, with two youths, a magpie, and an ape

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Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1595)
A man as Bacchus drinking wine, with two youths, a magpie, and an ape
oil on canvas, unframed
52.1/8 x 38.1/8 in. (132.3 x 96.8 cm.)

(Probably) 'Cavaliere Ambra' (by whom commissioned, according to Baldinucci) who was presumably (according to Ewald, 1974) Giovanni Battista d'Ambra, Cavaliere dell'Ordine di S. Stefano (1642-1725).
(Probably) Anton Francesco d'Ambra (1653-1725), by whom lent to the 1724 exhibition (see below).
Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence, 1930 (according to a label on the reverse).
Private collection, Spain.

Note du spécialiste

Attributions to both Bartolommeo Passarotti and Agostino Carracci have been suggested, but both Sir Denis Mahon and Dr. Stephen Pepper consider that this picture is a relatively early work, of the early 1580s, of Annibale Carracci. It was evidently always rather thinly painted, but the modelling of the child on the left and the servant on the right seem fully characteristic of the artist.

We are grateful to Dr. Stephen Pepper and Sir Denis Mahon, who have examined the picture.