Hercules and Cacus, after Annibale Carracci, and the Destruction of Enceladus, after Agostino Carracci 1761 Jean Honoré Fragonard French Directly following his study at the French Academy in Rome, Fragonard traveled in Italy making sketches after Italian artworks for the abbé de Saint-Non, who later had them etched in reverse in his "Recueil de Griffonis." Here Fragonard copied frescoes painted by Annibale and Agostino Carracci over fireplaces in adjacent rooms in the Palazzo Sampieri-Talon, Bologna. The attributions recorded in Fragonard's inscriptions have been reversed by modern scholarship
Hercules and Cacus, after Annibale Carracci, and the Destruction of Enceladus, after Agostino Carracci 1761 Jean Honoré Fragonard French Directly following his study at the French Academy in Rome, Fragonard traveled in Italy making sketches after Italian artworks for the abbé de Saint-Non, who later had them etched in reverse in his "Recueil de Griffonis." Here Fragonard copied frescoes painted by Annibale and Agostino Carracci over fireplaces in adjacent rooms in the Palazzo Sampieri-Talon, Bologna. The attributions recorded in Fragonard's inscriptions have been reversed by modern Hercules and Cacus, after Annibale Carracci, and the Destruction of Enceladus, after Agostino Carracci. Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris). 1761. Black chalk, framing lines in pen and brown ink. Drawings
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