Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Il Guercino (1591-1666)

Details

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Il Guercino (1591-1666)

A Landscape with Trees on an Outcrop, a village in the distance

pen and brown ink, brown wash
4½ x 8 1/8in. (114 x 205mm.)

Provenance

Casa Gennari.
John Bouverie, and by descent to the Earl of Gainsborough.
With E. Parsons.
D.F. Platt (L. 750a and 2066b), his inscription 'Gainsboro, Parsons 1922 L 2-10, g 25M, 102, 8919, 18' (verso).
Princeton University Museum.

Literature

M. Lynes, The Drawings of Guercino in the Dan Fellows Platt Collection, Ph. D. Thesis, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1940, no. 12.

Exhibited

New York, Schaeffer Gallery, 1940.
Institute of Fine Arts, 1961.
Vassar College, 1963, no. 19.

Lot Essay

Comparable in handling with a drawing that shares the same provenance, and which Diane DeGrazia dated to the early 1620s, F. Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, 1977, no. 269, illustrated.
Sir Denis Mahon has kindly confirmed the attribution to Guercino, on the basis of a photograph.