Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (1591-1666)

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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (1591-1666)

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

red chalk, watermark MC below bunch of grapes
254 x 167mm.
Provenance
Spencer Churchill, according to an inscription on the mount

Lot Essay

Sir Denis Mahon has kindly confirmed the attribution, and suggests that this may be related to the picture of 1652 in the Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome, L. Salerno, I Dipinti del Guercino, Rome, 1988, no. 290

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