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Agostino Carracci, attrib. to
Italian, 1557 - 1602
Venus, 16th - 17th century
Black chalk on laid paper mounted to a heavier sheet
42.3 x 25.4 cm (sheet)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.24.164

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Artist Biography: Born Bologna 1557, died Parma 1602. Originally a goldsmith, studied printmaking with Domenico Tibaldi, and was the first of the 3 Carracci to become a printmaker. Also worked with Passarotti and Prospero Fontana. Worked in Venice and Florence but mostly in Bologna. Went to Rome 1594 for Farnese, then to Parma 1600 where he died in 1602.~~Reference: Istituto Nazionale per la grafica. Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori. Roma: 1986, …cole franÁaise de Rome.~Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family. Washington: 1979, National Gallery of Art.~Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. W¸rzburg: 1920. vol. 18.~Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Italian Masters of the Sixteenth Century. The Illustrated Bartsch vol. 39. New York: 1980, Abaris Books.~

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