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The Death of General Wolfe

Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)

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Study for a Satyr or Faun,

Annibale Carracci, Attributed to
Italian, 1560 - 1609
red chalk on laid paper
20.2 x 25.2 cm
Purchased 1937
National Gallery of Canada (no. 4437)

This study, presumably of a satyr, has been linked to a figure frescoed on the vault of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome - one of the crucial monuments for the development of the Baroque style. Recently, the attribution to Annibale has been questioned, in favour of his older cousin Ludovico Carracci. Such disputes over the attribution of Carracci drawings are the norm rather than the exception in this difficult area of connoisseurship. In either case, the drawing demonstrates the importance that the naturalistic study of the nude had for their innovative practise.

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