Lot 16
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Provenance
1st Earl of Leicester, his mount with the attribution 'Guido Reni' in William Kent's (?) hand
Literature
The Stranger's Guide to Holkham, Burnham, 1817, no. 115
C. Johnston, The Drawings of Guido Reni, unpublished dissertation, University of London, 1974, no. 135, illustrated
V. Birke, Guido Reni Zeichnungen, Vienna, 1981, pp. 154-8, fig. 51 D.S. Pepper, Guido Reni, Oxford, 1984, pp. 252-3, under no. 104
A.E. Popham and C.E. Lloyd, Old Master Drawings from Holkham Hall , Chicago, 1986, no. 216
D.S. Pepper, Guido Reni: L'Opera Completa, Novara, 1988, under no. 93
Exhibited
Norwich, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings lent by the Earl of Leicester, 1949, no. 26
London, Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., Old Master Drawings from Holkham, 1977, no. 41
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Guido Reni und Europa, 1988-9, no. B50, illustrated
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Old Master Drawings from Holkham Hall, 1988

Lot Essay

This drawing was first identified by Catherine Johnson as a preparatory study for the head of Judith in the Judith and Holofernes of the mid 1620s in the Sedlmayer Collection, Geneva, D.S. Pepper, op. cit., 1984, no. 104, pl. 134. The picture differs in only minor details from the drawing, notably in the jewelled knot at the top of Judith's head which is only summarily indicated in the drawing.

Other preparatory drawings for the picture are in the Uffizi, The Metropolitan Museum and the Real Accademia di San Fernando, Madrid, O. Birke, op. cit., nos. 110-12 and fig. 52

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