CARRACCI, Annibale (b. 1560, Bologna, d. 1602, Roma) |
Hunting1585-88Oil on canvas, 136 x 253 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris | ||
This painting and its companion piece, The Fishing was executed by Carracci in his period in Bologna. At this time he was extremely interested in landscape, and his experiments are a foreshadowing of Poussin's classical compositions; but in these pictures he is exploring in a different direction, in the tradition of Bassani, whose studios continued to turn out landscapes which were prized all over Europe.
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