A woman rescuing twin babies from a river. Engraving by C. Fantetti after Hieronymus Trudon after Annibale Carracci.
- Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.
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Description
Composition possibly the same as a picture referred to by Malvasia as "a Latona in a landscape, where peasants are muddying the waters of the pond to spite her, a very beautiful work in the manner of Veronese" (Summerscale, loc. cit.)
Anne Summerscale, Malvasia's Life of the Carracci: commentary and translation, University Park, Pa., 2000, p. 325, with reference to the present print
Physical description
1 print : etching ; platemark ?? cm
Lettering
Anibal Carraccius pinxit ; Hieronimus Trudon delineavit ; Cesare Fantetti sculpsit. Extat Neap. in aedibus ecc.mi Roccæ Aspidis &c.
References note
Evelina Borea e Ginevra Mariani, Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori, Roma 1986, A52, p. 287 as "Scena mitologica"
Reference
Wellcome Collection 36832i
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Where to find it
Album of engravings compiled by Pietro Fancelli
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