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GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI, IL GUERCINO (CENTO 1591-1666 BOLOGNA)

Starting price
£ 40 000
Auction dateClassic
05.07.2022 12:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 793394
Lot 15 | GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI, IL GUERCINO (CENTO 1591-1666 BOLOGNA)
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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