Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Troy, after Federico Barocci
1595
16th century
40.2 cm x 52.4 cm (15 13/16 in. x 20 5/8 in.)
Agostino Carracci
(Bologna, Italy, 1557 - 1602, Parma, Italy)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Engraving
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002
Accession Number:
2002.1750
This print depends upon a modello by Barocci and represents the height of Agostino’s virtuosity with a burin. Exceptionally rich, this impression belongs to a very early, previously undescribed state.