Bacchus and Ariadne on a chariot accompanied by bacchants, Silenus etc. Engraving after C. Cesio after Annibale Carracci.

Previous title, replaced October 2023 : Bacchus and Ariadne on a chariot accompanied by bacchants, Silenus etc. Engraving by Cl. Lefebvre after Annibale Carracci.

1681

1 print

A. Carac. in.

Attributed in some catalogues to Claude Lefèbvre (1632-1675), on the ground that the preface to the series to which this print belongs is signed "Le Febvre sculpsit". However, Préaud (loc. cit.) identifies this engraver as the lettering-engraver Toussaint Lefebvre (active 1660-1681). The engraver's exemplar was probably one of the prints by Carlo Cesio in the series Galeria nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma.del Sereniss. Duca di Parma etc. dipinta da Annibale Carracci intagliata da Carlo Cesio, produced in Rome in 1657 (Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1821, vol. XXI, p. 110, no. 33)

Maxime Préaud, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, tome 10, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1989, pp. 47-48

Wellcome Collection 11594i