ID 587675
Lot 7 | GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI, IL GUERCINO (CENTO 1591-1666 BOLOGNA)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
pen and brown ink, watermark ‘LT’
8 x 7 ¾ in. (20.4 x 19.7 cm)
Provenance
Sir Charles Greville, Bt. (1763-1832) (L. 549); by descent to his nephew
George Guy, 4th Earl of Warwick (1818-1893) (L. 2600); Christie’s, London, 30 May 1896, lot 170 (£3 5s. to Greville, with two others).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 22 March 1973, lot 42.
with Thos. Agnew and Sons, London (Master Drawings and Prints, 1974, no. 8, ill. on cover).
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; Sotheby’s, London, 6 July 1987, lot 1.
Literature
Kimbell Art Museum, Handbook of the Collection, Fort Worth, 1981, p. 140, ill.
D. Mahon and N. Turner, The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, Cambridge, 1987, p. 127, under no. 360.
L. Salerno, I dipinti del Guercino, Rome, 1988, p. 347, under no. 277.
N. Turner, The Paintings of Guercino. A Revised and Expanded Catalogue Raisonné, Rome, 2017, p. 529, under no. 240, ill., p. 675, under no. 386.
Special notice
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