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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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