# Annibale Carracci artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1560-11-03
- Death date: 1609-07-15
- Nationality: Italian
- Movements: Italian Baroque, Bolognese painting
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking and engraving, Drawing and figure studies, Fresco painting

## Portrait

![Annibale Carracci](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Annibale_Carracci_-_Self-portrait.jpg)
Annibale Carracci · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annibale_Carracci_-_Self-portrait.jpg

## About Annibale Carracci

Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) was an Italian painter, printmaker, and teacher whose career moved from Bologna to Rome. Working alongside his brother Agostino and cousin Ludovico, he helped shape a reform of late-sixteenth-century Italian painting that became central to the Baroque. His art brought close observation and energetic naturalism together with renewed attention to classical composition and monumental figure design. In Rome, the frescoes of the Palazzo Farnese Gallery became an influential reference for later painters. Collectors may encounter works connected with Carracci across several formats: paintings and oil studies, drawings and figure studies, engravings and other prints, and compositions known through later impressions or copies. Subjects represented in public collections include biblical and devotional narratives, classical mythology, landscapes, human figures, and scenes of everyday life such as butcher-shop imagery. Because Carracci worked within a closely connected family and teaching environment, careful attribution is essential when relating an object to his accepted oeuvre.

## Common works and media

Public collections associate Annibale Carracci with paintings, frescoes, drawings, figure studies, prints, and engravings. Recurring subjects include Christian narratives and saints, classical mythology, landscapes, human figures, and scenes of everyday life. Collectors may also encounter later impressions, copies, or works bearing qualified relationships to Carracci, making the exact catalogue wording and attribution level important.

## Market and appraisal context

Carracci's market spans major Old Master paintings as well as drawings, prints, and works offered with qualified attribution language. Appraisily's matched auction data should be read through comparable lots that align in medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, provenance, and attribution confidence. Restoration history, surface quality, signatures, inscriptions, documented ownership, and catalogue references may materially affect comparison; edition details also matter for prints. Public results do not capture every private transaction and may report fees inconsistently. Aggregated records can include objects with different attribution levels or later editions. A defensible appraisal therefore requires object-level examination and comparison with genuinely similar, well-catalogued sales rather than reliance on a single artist-wide price statistic.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12466547v
- Encyclopædia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Annibale-Carracci
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/carracci-annibale-15601609
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG22073
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1096.html
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7824
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115350
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/12405951/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/033849811
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annibale_Carracci