An extensive rocky landscape with a hermit

Details

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (1591-1666)
An extensive rocky landscape with a hermit
pen and brown ink on two joined sheets of paper, watermark three circles with a crescent, a bird and MS, losses made up
13¼ x 23 in. (337 x 584 mm.)

Provenance

Probably Casa Gennari.
Contessa Rosa Piatti-Lochis Crocetta (L. 2026c), with associated stencilled number '58'.
F. Asta (L. 116a).
Purchased from Botte, Paris, 1961 (as Titian).

Lot Essay

The attribution to Guercino for this large landscape, formerly attributed to Titian, has kindly been confirmed by Nicholas Turner. A drawing with similar blasted trees and strong widely-spaced hatching is at Windsor, D. Mahon and N. Turner, The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, Cambridge, 1989, no. 249, pl. 233.
Sir Dennis Mahon, in a communication with Madame Gisela Bucher, has expressed his reservations about the attribution.

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