Wilton album, folio 41: The Drunken Silenus (Tazza Farnese)
ca. 1597–1600
Medium
Engraving printed from shallow silver cup
Dimensions
sheet: 9 15/16 in. (25.3 cm) in diameter mount: 12 15/16 x 11 1/8 in. (32.8 x 28.2 cm.)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.78.1(150)
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Annibale Carracci · 1560–1609
Annibale was considered one of the greatest Italian painters of his age. His style is marked by naturalism combined with the formal language of Classicism in a grand and monumental style. Annibale was also instrumental in evolving the ideal, classical landscape and is generally credited with the invention of caricature. Italian painter. Comment on works: Mythology.