Carracci, Agostino (1557-1602; Italian)

Works by or after Agostino Carracci in the pre-Felton collection
Albert [Prince] after Carracci (Agostino) [attrib.] Eagles 1841 {1893} NGV [ET] (previously believed to be by Annibale Carracci)
* Carracci (Agostino) after Barocci Aeneas bearing his father Anchises {by 1894} Loc? [PR]

A member of the influential Carracci family active in Bologna and Rome in the later 16th and early 17th centuries , he assisted his famous older brother Annibale Carracci on the Farnese Ceiling in Rome (1597ff.). He was also well-known as a reproductive engraver.

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See e.g. Giovanni Bellori, Lives of Annibale and Agostino Carracci (1672), trans.C.Enggass, Penn.State UP, 1968; D.Bohlin, Prints and related drawings by the Carracci family, Washington, 1979; AKL 16 (1997), pp.562-64; and Bénézit 3, pp.454-46. See also linked entry on Annibale Carracci, especially for the Farnese Ceiling