Lot Essay
Prisco Bagni pointed out that the drawing was probably executed on the river Reno, near Cento. David Stone dates it to the 1630s or early 1640s.
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A bather seated on a river bank, pulling off his shirt
Details
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (1591-1666)
Guercino
Barbieri, G.F.
A bather seated on a river bank, pulling off his shirt
pen and brown ink, minor ink gall damages repaired, watermark encircled Calvary under P
7.3/8 x 7.5/8 in. (187 x 192 mm.)
Guercino
Barbieri, G.F.
A bather seated on a river bank, pulling off his shirt
pen and brown ink, minor ink gall damages repaired, watermark encircled Calvary under P
7.3/8 x 7.5/8 in. (187 x 192 mm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 13 January 1989, lot 224.
with W. M. Brady and Co., 1990.
with W. M. Brady and Co., 1990.
Literature
D.M. Stone, Guercino, Master draftsman, exhib. cat., Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge and elsewhere, 1991, no. 172, pl. P.