Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (1591-1666)

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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (1591-1666)

An Angel pointing to the right

oiled black chalk, a small section on the upper edge made up
270 x 340mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 January 1985, lot 134, illustrated in colour ($5,500)

Exhibited

Harvard, University Art Museums, Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada and Cleveland, Museum of Art, Guercino Master Draftsman, works from North American Collections, 1991, no. 55, illustrated

Lot Essay

David Stone tentatively suggested that this is a preparatory study for the angel in the lower centre of the Assumption of the Virgin of 1654-5 in the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, L. Salerno, I Dipinti del Guercino, Rome, 1988, no. 312

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