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Boy Drinking

Boy Drinking

1582–83
(Italian, c. 1560–1609)
Framed: 79 x 67 x 5.5 cm (31 1/8 x 26 3/8 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 55.8 x 43.7 cm (21 15/16 x 17 3/16 in.)

Did You Know?

In this painting, the reflective quality of the jug enhances its naturalism: notice how it throws light onto the boy's shirt.

Description

Together with his brother Agostino and cousin Lodovico, Annibale Carracci introduced artistic reforms in Italy based on close observation of the natural world. Annibale’s innovative and highly influential style steered a path between the smooth artificiality of Mannerism––in which style and technique took precedence over fidelity to nature––and the heightened drama of paintings by Caravaggio. In this remarkable early work, the coarse surface of the canvas, the inelegant subject matter, and the striking distortion of forms from light passing through glass all speak to his naturalistic approach.
  • Lord Bateman, Shobdon Court, Herfordshire, England
    April 11, 1986
    [Sale: The Property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Bateman, Christie's London, April 11, 1896, lot 145 as Velazquez]
    1896-
    John Hill Wood (1813-1869), Gatehead, Yorkshire, England, by inheritance to his son Sir John Wood 1st Bt.
    -1951
    Sir John Wood 1st Bt. (1857-1951), Hengrave Hall, Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk
    September 15-25, 1952
    [Sale: The Contents of Hengrave Hall, Knight, Frank and Rutley, London, September 15-25, 1952, lot 1686]
    L. J. King, Esq., Dorchester, Dorset, by inheritance to his wife, Mrs. Mary King
    1952-1984
    Mrs. Mary King, Dorchester, Dorset, England
    1984
    [Sale: Lawrence’s of Crewkerne, England]
    July 11, 1985
    [Sale: Old master Drawings and 17th, 18th and 19th century Oil Paintings, Bonhams, London, July 11, 1985, lot 5]
    1985-
    [Harari and [Derek] Johns, London, England, sold to Peter Jay Sharp]
    -1992
    Peter Jay Sharp (1931-1992), New York, NY
    January 13, 1994
    [Sale: The Estate Of Peter Jay Sharp, Sotheby's New York, January 13, 1994, lot 70, to the Cleveland Museum of Art]
    1994-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    Knight Frank & Rutley, and John Arthur Haigh Wood. Contents of Hengrave Hall. 1952. Lot 1686
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    National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Pinacoteca nazionale (Bologna, Italy), and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1986. Reproduced: p. 267, no. 84
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    Pepper, D. Stephen. “The Aftermath of the Correggio/Carracci Exhibitions.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 126 (December 1987): 409–413. Reproduced: P. 411
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    Sotheby's (Firm). Sotheby's Art at Auction. London: Sotheby's Publications, 1993. Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 71
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    Morandotti, Alessandro. Pittura italiana antica: artisti e opere del Seicento e del Settecento. Milano, Italy: Fenice 2000, 1995. Mentioned: p. 104-106; Reproduced: p. 106
    Wachter, George. "An Ongoing Secret: The Pleasure of Old Master Paintings." In Sotheby's Art at Auction, 18-21. London: Sotheby's Publications, 1996. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 21
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    Pons, Salvador Salort. "Las Relaciones Artisticas Entre Italia y Sevilla Durante el Primer Tercio del Siglo XVII." In De Herrera a Velázquez: El Primer Naturalismo en Sevillla. Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, and Benito Navarrete Prieto, eds., 54-55. [Sevilla]: Focus Abengoa, 2005. Mentioned and reproduced: P55, fig. 46
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    Rihouet, Pascale. "Veronese's Goblets: Glass Design and the Civilizing Process." Journal of Design History 26, no. 2 (2013): 133-151. Reproduced: P. 137, fig. 3.
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    Reproduced: p. 239
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    Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (March 29, 2007 - July 8, 2007).
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