H.J. Harding (active 1819-1825) after Guido Reni

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H.J. Harding (active 1819-1825) after Guido Reni

Christ, the man of sorrows

signed, dated and inscribed with title on the backing card Ecce Home/after Guido/by H. Harding/London 1819, brush, black and brown ink, watercolour and tempera on card laid down on card
13.2 x 9.5 cm;

and a similar one of the Madonna after Carlo Dolci; a Magdalen; and 'Tragedy' after Jean-Baptiste Greuze, all by the same hand, all signed, inscribed and dated 1819 on the backing cards and of similar measurements (4)

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The original by Reni is in the Louvre (on canvas, oval, 62 x 48 cm, executed in 1639/40)

H.J. Harding is recorded as a miniaturist and copyist of portraits in London in the 1820's (see D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, 19.., I, p. 308)

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