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Christ on the Cross: Study for the Crucifixion with Saints
by Guercino
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso (possibly in Guercino's own hand), across bottom, in pen and brown ink: "Ricordo p[er] comprare un terzo unzio di [...] /oltra mare che sia bello e sopra il [...]/cotile p [er] lavorare in un rame piccolo/in un panno della Madona dal/ [...] R.A. Padre don Marcho da/ Venecia pro [vedi]dore di detto [...] in Santa Maria al Va [...] à Ferrara"; verso, upper center, on mount, in pen and brown ink: "Francesco Barbieri detto il Guercino"
Provenance
Dr. Benno Geiger (born 1882) Vienna. Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 516)]; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.
Exhibition history
St. Louis Art Museum, "Italian Drawings Selected from Midwestern Collections," Feb. 25-Apr. 16, 1972, cat. 31 (ill.). Harvard University Museums, "Guercino: Master Draftsman, Works from North American Collections," Feb 16-Mar. 31, 1991, cat. 13, pp. 70-71 (ill.).
Publications
Leo Planiscig and Hermann Voss, Drawings of Old Masters from the Collection of Dr. Benno Geiger (Zurich: Amalthea, c. 1920), no. 35 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Suzanne McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), no. 61, pl. 70. Dennis Mahon and Nicholas Turner, The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), under no. 33, p. 18.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Guercino / Italian, 1591-1666
- Date
- 1624/25
- Medium
- Pen and iron gall ink on buff laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 25.8 × 17.4 cm (10 3/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
- Accession no.
- 1927.7754
More by Guercino in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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