Annibale Carracci
Seated male nude
c. 1594 - 1595
prints & drawings
This is one of the surviving studies for the fresco decorations Carracci made in the Galleria Grande of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. It depicts one of the two satyrs seated on the corners of the frame of a 'Polypheme and Acis', each turning its back to a smaller depiction of the 'Rape of Ganymede', parts of the frescoes on the barrel vault of the Galleria.
- Wikipedia on the Galleria Grandehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loves_of_the_Gods_%28Carracci%29
