Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (Cento 1591-1666 Bologna)

Cleopatra bitten by the asp

細節

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (Cento 1591-1666 Bologna)
Cleopatra bitten by the asp
red chalk, watermark Barberini arms with cardinal's hat
8½ x 8 in. (217 x 203 mm.)

來源

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 July 1975, lot 28.
With Herman Shickman, New York, 1976.

出版

C. van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Guercino, Drawings from Dutch Collections, exhib. cat., Haarlem, Teylers Museum, 1991, under no. 54.
D.M. Stone, Guercino, Master Draughtsman: Works from North American Collections, exhib. cat., Cambridge, Mass., Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and elsewhere, 1991, p. xix, pl. XIII, and p. 226, no. 227.
P. Boccardo, Genova e Guercino, exhib. cat., Genoa, Palazzo Rosso, 1992, p. 76.
B. Ghelfi, Il libro dei conti del Guercino, Bologna, 1997, p. 138, note 387.

展覽

Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Il Guercino, Disegni, 1991 (catalogue by Sir Denis Mahon), no. 138.

拍品專文

A study for Guercino's painting of the Death of Cleopatra now in the Palazzo Rosso, Genoa (L. Salerno, Il Dipinti del Guercino, Rome, 1988, no. 252). That painting can almost certainly be identified with the 'Quadro di Cleopatra' for which Guercino's account books record that the Abbate Carlo Emanuelli Durazzi paid 125 ducatoni, equivalent to 156 scudi, on 24 March 1648 (B. Ghelfi, op. cit., p. 138, no. 387). Guercino painted a second version of the subject, now lost, for which he was paid on 8 March 1650 (B. Ghelfi, op. cit., p. 146, no. 420). Although there are small differences between the drawing and the picture, Sir Denis Mahon considers the drawing preparatory for the 1648 picture rather than that of 1650 one (D. Mahon, op. cit., p. 213).
Another drawing of the subject, similar in composition but in pen and brown ink, was in the de Boer Collection (Christie's, London, 4 July 1995, lot 55).