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).