CESARE GENNARI (CENTO 1637-1688 BOLOGNA)
CESARE GENNARI (CENTO 1637-1688 BOLOGNA)
CESARE GENNARI (CENTO 1637-1688 BOLOGNA)
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From the Collection of the late Anthony Powell
CESARE GENNARI (CENTO 1637-1688 BOLOGNA)

A youth addressing a man, and an old man with a child (recto); A landscape with a city in the background (verso)

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CESARE GENNARI (CENTO 1637-1688 BOLOGNA)
A youth addressing a man, and an old man with a child (recto); A landscape with a city in the background (verso)
pen and brown ink
22.3 x 15.6 cm (8 2⁄3 x 6 1⁄8 in.)
Provenance
Anthony Powell (1935-2021), London; thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

A similar double-sided drawing including the artist’s extensive handwriting on the verso is in the Denis Mahon collection (see D. Ekserdjian, Guercino Drawings from the Collections of Denis Mahon and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1986, no. 47, ill.). The elderly man and the infant in the lower part of the drawing echoes the God the Father and Angel painting by Guercino in the Palazzo Rosso, Genoa (inv. PB 257). Another landscape by Gennari, this one in black chalk, is at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (inv. RP-T-1955-170).

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