Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (Cento 1591-1666 Bologna)

Saint Mark

Details

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (Cento 1591-1666 Bologna)
Saint Mark
pen and brown ink
5¾ x 8 in. (144 x 202 mm.)

Provenance

F.M. von Heyl zu Herrnsheim (L.2879); Stuttgart, Gutekunst, 25-26 May 1903, lot 40 (5 Marks).
S. Graf von Kalckreuth, by descent to his granddaughter
Anna Koenigs (née Gräfin von Kalckreuth),
The Franz Koenigs Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 2001, lot 54 (as Circle of Guercino).

Engraved

Engraved in reverse by Giovanni Battista Pasqualini (P. Bagni, Il Guercino e i suoi incisori, Rome, 1988, no. 12.)

Lot Essay

Nicholas Turner confirmed the attribution to Guercino to the previous owner. The drawing inspired an engraving by Giovanni Battista Pasqualini (1595-1631), like Guercino a native of Cento, published in 1618-19.

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