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JAFFÉ, MICHAEL: Some Pen Drawings of Landscape with Figures by Annibale Carracci

59. Annibale Carracci: Rest on the Flight into Egypt. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts style of painting and the touch were on the contrary entirely characteristic of the lingering Venetian phase in the art of Annibale just preceding his work in the Cappella Aldobrandini al Corso.

7 Of that I was able to persuade Dr. Fenyő. He himself a few months later, on a visit to the Print-Room at Dresden, found another print after the composition, with « Annibal Carache» etched at the bottom left, and « Inv. C », presumably the initial of one of the Corneille family, at the bottom right. This print at least counters the late eighteenth century opinion of Garreau. There is no doubt that the Budapest drawing served as a preparatory study at an advanced stage for the painting, with which it must be closely associated in date; and as such it is an important rarity amongst the surviving work of Annibale as a master of landscape. There are minor but precisely significant changes between drawing and painting. In the painting, the mountain peak is hidden in cloud; and the branches of the pollard tree before it are seen wholly against it. The sails of the two boats on the horizon disappear. The vegetation between St. Joseph and the Madonna is omitted; and the tree roots on the bank to the left of the Holy Family are more articulated. The saddle-cloth on the horse is shortened; as is the drapery of the man who leads it. St. Joseph's head is more sunken in his crossed arms, and the hair of the Madonna is bound. The penwork accords well with the « Landscape with a man sleeping at the foot of a tree » in the Ellesmere collection which bears the old in7 Jaffé, M.: The Lunettes and After: Bologna 1962. Burlington Magazine CIV, 1962. pp. 410 — 419.