Art, literature & history
Portrait of the Artist's Son, Antonio Carracci
1592/95
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 36.1 × 25.6 cm (14 1/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1973.152
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Agostino Carracci. Portrait of the Artist's Son, Antonio Carracci. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Portrait of the Artist's Son, Antonio Carracci — Agostino Carracci. 1592/95.
Medium: Red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper. Dimensions: 36.1 × 25.6 cm (14 1/4 × 10 1/8 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Agostino Carracci’s training as an engraver and his careful study of the human form are evident in the execution of this portrait of his son Antonio, both in the vigorous strokes of the background and in the structure of the face. Antonio was probably twelve or thirteen years old when his father made this portrait of him.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.