Old Master Drawings

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Lot 60
  • 60

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called il Guercino Cento 1591 - 1666 Bologna

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Description

  • Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Il Guercino
  • a seated boy
  • pen and black ink over traces of black chalk

Provenance

Cecile and Milton Hebald (bears their collector's mark, not in Lugt)

Exhibited

Los Angeles, University of California, The Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, Studies from the Cecile and Milton Hebald Collection, 1970, cat. no. 24, reproduced;
On loan to the Ackland Art Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Catalogue Note

Though apparently unrelated to any known painting by Guercino, this drawing can be dated between about 1635 and 1650 on stylistic grounds.  Nicholas Turner has kindly confirmed the attribution.