Description: Numbered at lower right in pen and brown ink: 813 (Sparre)

This drawing is related to the series of about eighty drawings of Bolognese tradesmen that Annibale executed in the mid 1580s. These were later engraved by Simon Guillain and published in Rome 1646 as "Diverse Figure al numero di ottanta. Disegnate di penna. Nell'hora di recreatione di Annibale Carracci". A new series of engravings by Giuseppe Mitelli was published in 1660 as "Di Bologna l'arti per via d'Annibale Carracci". Our drawings is particularly close to one of Annibale's sheets which represents a blind man, known through Guillain's print and entitled "Cieco da Rimedio per i Calli".

Faccini has made two engravings of the subject one with a standing dog, the other with a sitting dog. Our drawing represents a third version of the subject representing the same beggar and the same dog but in somewhat different attitudes. It seems to have been executed on the same occasion. A similar drawing in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Gabinetto disegne e stampe, Bologna, is attributed to Pietro Faccini. 

Faccini was well known as a caricaturist and the drawing is most likely by his hand and invention. Richard Wallace further considers Agostino's "Saint Roch with a dog" as one of Facchini's sources and interprets Faccini's print as a parody of Agostino's grand manner. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1494]

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