A poor mother and four children leave a temple in an ancient city; a cloaked man with a stick walks behind them; a boy follows using an artificial leg and crutches. Etching by Michel Corneille, ca. 1666, after Annibale or Lodovico Carracci.

  • Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.
Date:
[1754]
Reference:
589687i
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Publication/Creation

[Paris] : [Chez Joullain], [1754]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 28.2 x 40 cm

Lettering

An Carache delin. ; 2C ; M. Corneille sculp. cum privil. Regis

Creator/production credits

After a drawing attributed by some to Annibale Carracci, by others to Lodovico Carracci: see Nicholas Turner in The Burlington magazine, January 2005, pp. 55-56

Reference

Wellcome Collection 589687i

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