Property from a Noble European collection
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
Landscape with a river, two figures in the foreground, a tree to the left, a rocky hill to the right, and a tower and a building in the distance
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Property from a Noble European collection
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Il Guercino
(Cento 1591 - 1666 Bologna)
Landscape with a river, two figures in the foreground, a tree to the left, a rocky hill to the right, and a tower and a building in the distance
Pen and brown ink
189 by 274 mm
Landscape drawings, done for their own sake, constitute a distinctive section of Guercino's drawn oeuvre. Guercino made these imaginative views, the majority executed in pen and ink, for much of his artistic career and a good number of them have survived. Although, he was extremely busy with his numerous commissions he seems to have enjoyed devoting time to these sophisticated and delicate views.