AT-00006070
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The Triumphant Hercules with the Vanquished Hydra
by Guercino
Inscriptions
No inscriptions
Provenance
Alfred Normand (1910–1993), Paris [stamp (L.153c) recto, lower right, in black]; sold, Christie’s, Monaco, June 20, 1994, lot 23. Walter Lees and Mr. NC., London; sold, Christie’s, London, July 16, 2010, lot 127, through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 32, cat. 10, p. 133, GC 34.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino / Italian, 1591-1666
- Date
- c. 1618
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper, ruled in pen and brown ink, laid down on paperboard
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 22.3 × 12.8 cm (8 13/16 × 5 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 22.2 × 13 cm (8 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.879
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