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GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI IL GUERCINO (CENTO 1591-1666 BOLOGNA)
Cleopatra bitten by the asp
red chalk, watermark Barberini arms with cardinal’s hat
21.7 x 20.3 cm (8 1⁄2 x 8 in.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 8 July 1975, lot 28.
with Herman Shickman, New York, 1976.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 22 January 2004, lot 37.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 24 January 2008, lot 30.
Literature
C. van Tuyll, Guercino Drawings from Dutch Collections, exhib. cat., Haarlem, Teylers Museum, 1991, p. 130, under no. 54.
D.M. Stone, Guercino. Master Draughtsman. Works from North American Collections, exhib. cat., Cambridge, Mass., Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 1991, pl. XIII.
P. Boccardo, Genova e Guercino, exhib. cat., Genoa, Palazzo Rosso, 1992, p. 78, under no. 23.
B. Ghelfi, Il libro dei conti del Guercino 1629-1666, Bologna, 1997, no. 387.
N. Turner, The Paintings of Guercino. A Revised and Expanded Catalogue raisonné, Rome, 2017, p. 644, under no. 351.
Exhibited
Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Il Guercino. Disegni, 1991, no. 138, ill.
New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Il Guercino 1591-1666, 1992, no. 10.
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