Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (1591-1666)

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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (1591-1666)

Studies of four Heads, for Saint William receiving the monastic Habit

pen and brown ink, a red chalk study of a head of a girl by a studio hand (verso), the corners cut
185 x 138mm.

出版

N. Turner and C. Plazzotta, Drawings by Guercino from British Collections, London, 1991, under no. 27

展覽

Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino 1591-1666, 1992, no. 21, illustrated

拍品專文

A study for the heads of the Saint William, the Bishop and two acolytes for the altarpiece painted in 1620 for San Gregorio, Bologna and now in the Pinacoteca there, L. Salerno, I Dipinti del Guercino, Rome, 1988, no. 69. The commission was the most important Guercino received before his departure to Rome in 1621. Guercino's careful preparation for the painting is clear from the large number of related drawings, see D. Mahon, Il Guercino: Catalogo critico dei disegni, Bologna, 1969, nos. 57-76 and N. Turner and C. Plazzotta, op. cit., nos. 26-8