Radocsay Dénes - Gerevich Lászlóné szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 25. (Budapest,1964)

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

69. Annibale Carracci: Pastoral Landscape. Oxford, Aslimolean Museum even more closely with the Ellesmere drawing of 1595, and was perhaps drawn by Annibale a year or two earlier than the other two (Fig. 62). With this drawing the problem of attribution has arisen in a particularly interesting way. A very similar composition was etched in reverse by Grimai di, who was prepared usually to etch « An. Carac » on prints of which he acknowledged the source of the design.

12 But in this instance

13 he etched « Gio. fran

c0 Grimaldi Bolognese inv. et fecit » on his plate (Fig. 63). He must have had access to, or perhaps even owned, the Budapest « Landscape with the Cardplayers ». The « Libro di Paesi Disegnati da Gio : Fran

c0 Grimaldi Bolognese»which was compiled in Rome by D. Vincenzo Vittoria in 1701, only twentyone years after Grimaldi's death in that city, is an album of impeccable authenticity. Mounted across one complete opening is the pen drawing prepared by Grimaldi for his print,

14 the group of the card players being barely indicated in pencil (Fig. 64); since on another piece of paper, mounted by Vittoria on the next folio, he had already 12 E.g. Bartsch XIX. nos. 38, 40, 42 & 43; and, in the case of no. 41, Grimaldi even dates his etching «1643 An. Carac». 18 Bartsch XIX. 110. 46. 14 British Museum At10-47; pen and brown ink over indications in black chalk, and pencil, on white paper, 318x456 mm. The impression of the plate of «Les Joueurs» measures 321x454 mm. Between Grimaldi's drawing and his etching the differences — appart from chiaroscuro

—are scarcely significant: the flight of birds; the wliip; the cloud formation; tiny buildings in the distance; and some foreground plants. !M