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Annibale Carracci

Hercules Resting (recto)

1595–97
black chalk heightened with white, squared in black chalk on right, incised (edges of figure)

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The squares drawn lightly over this composition suggest that it was used to transfer the design to another surface such as a full-scale cartoon.

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