Saturday, November 5, 2016

Wash Drawings by Guercino

Guercino
Beggar carrying child on his shoulders
1630s-1640s
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

"The events surrounding the historian, and in which he himself takes part, will underlie his presentation in the form of a text written in invisible ink. The history which he lays before the reader comprises, as it were, the citations occurring in this text, and it is only these citations that occur in a manner legible to all. To write history thus means to cite history. It belongs to the concept of citation, however, that the historical object in each case is torn from its context."

 from The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Harvard University Press, 1999)

Guercino
Putti holding the Sudarium above the Head of St John the Baptist
17th century
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Guercino
St Joseph with flowering staff
1636
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Guercino
St Joseph with Christ Child
17th century
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Guercino
St Peter and the Angel
1650s
drawing
Art Gallery of South Australia

Guercino
The Visitation - St Elizabeth helps the Virgin dismount
ca. 1632
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Guercino
Penitent Magdalene
1624-25
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

attributed to Guercino
Study of an old man
17th century
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Guercino
Young man pulling flax
17th century
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Guercino
Raising of Tabitha
ca. 1618
drawing
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Guercino
Astrologer with compass and globe
17th century
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Guercino
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
ca. 1649
drawing
Honolulu Museum of Art

circle of Guercino
Study of Youths
17th century
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Guercino
Seated monk reading
1630s-1640s
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Guercino
Windy Landscape 
1630s
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum