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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Study for "The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew"
    Guercino. Study for "The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew", 1635/36. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00002215

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    Study for "The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew"

    by Guercino

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed verso, lower right, on mount, in graphite: "Guercino"

    Provenance

    Hugo L. Loewe, Berlin; by descent to his daughter, Marie Louise Pritchard, Chicago [according to a letter from Norman Pritchard dated July 3, 1961 in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1960.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," December 1979-March 1980, cat. 63, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 38-39, cat. 8 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to The St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986. Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, "Guercino: Master Draftsman, Works from North American Collections," February 16-March 31, 1991; traveled to Ottawa, Canada, The National Gallery of Canada, May 3-June 16, 1991.

    Publications

    Jacob Bean, Italian Drawings in the Museum, Princeton University (Princeton, 1966), p. 33. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 3D11. Luigi Salerno, Dipinti del Guercino (Rome, 1988), p. 247. Nicholas Turner and Carol Plazzotta, Drawings by Guercino from British Collections (London, 1991), p. 137.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino / Italian, 1591-1666
    Date
    1635/36
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on buff laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, edge mounted under blue wove paper
    Dimensions
    29.7 × 20.4 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Marie Louise Pritchard
    Accession no.
    1960.832

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