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Primavera distributing flowers, accompanied by a putto
Details
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (Cento 1591-1666 Bologna)
Primavera distributing flowers, accompanied by a putto
with inscription 'Guercino'
red chalk counterproof, perhaps reworked by the artist
7¾ x 10 5/8 in. (195 x 268 mm.)
Primavera distributing flowers, accompanied by a putto
with inscription 'Guercino'
red chalk counterproof, perhaps reworked by the artist
7¾ x 10 5/8 in. (195 x 268 mm.)
Provenance
with Yvonne ffrench, London, 1958.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 November 1977, lot 6.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 November 1977, lot 6.
Literature
D. Mahon and N. Turner, The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, Cambridge, 1989, under no.29.
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