Lot 67
  • 67

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

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Description

  • Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Il Guercino
  • the prophet isaiah reading from a scroll
  • pen and brown ink

Catalogue Note

Nicholas Turner has dated this drawing on stylistic grounds to the 1640s. It is rather close to Guercino's painting of Isaiah, Head and Shoulders, Reading a Letter, commissioned by the Marchese Cospi and paid for on 20 November 1648 (Private Collection; see Luigi Salerno, I Dipinti del Guercino, Rome 1988, p. 327, no. 255, reproduced).  A red chalk study by Guercino, in a private collection, is related to that painting (see David M. Stone, Guercino, Padua 1991, p. 224, no. 184, reproduced pl. E).