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Artists: Carracci, Annibale (16)

Period: 16th century (4567) | 17th century (5013)

Type: chalk (1606) | graphite (1872) | ink (2963)

Style: Italian (1743)

Keywords
beggars (12) | hats and headgear (1282) | people with disabilities (26) | poverty (10) | standing (551) | walking sticks (31)

Crippled beggar

16th century & 17th century

Artists
Attributed to Carracci, Annibale    more

Attributed to Metelli, Giuseppe Maria (1634-1718)

Chalk (red), graphite, pen and ink (brown) on paper

height: 27.8 cm; width: 20.1 cm

Notes
attribution to Metelli made by P. Pouncey (1985)

Inscription
Marked, pen and ink, lower left, recto, 4

Acquisition
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir); bequest; 1952
D.1952.RW.1740

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