Saturday, May 29, 2021

Guercino in Bologna - 1647-1648

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Ecce Homo
1647
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Ecce Homo
1647
drawing (compositional study)
Morgan Library, New York

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Ecce Homo
1647
drawing (compositional study)
Musée du Louvre

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Ecce Homo
1647
drawing (compositional study)
Royal Library, Windsor

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Ecce Homo
1647
drawing (compositional study)
private collection

Jérôme David after Guercino
Ecce Homo
ca. 1650-60
engraving
British Museum

"[Guercino's Ecce Homo] is cited by [Carlo Cesare] Malvasia under 1647 as 'Ecce Homo, tre mezze figure', commissioned by the Marchese Giovanni Nicolò Tanari, who paid 180 ducats (225 scudi) for it on 26 November 1647.  . . .  It seems to have been inspired by Francesco Albani's painting of the same subject [workshop copy directly below] in the Galleria Colonna Rome, datable c. 1635, in which, however, Christ is flanked by angels.  Guercino's painting was acquired during the reign of King Maximilian I of Bavaria (reg. 1806-25)."      

workshop copyist after Francesco Albani
Ecce Homo
ca. 1635
oil on canvas
private collection

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
1647-48
oil on canvas
Banco di San Geminiano e San Prospero, Modena

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
1647-48
drawing (figure study - Christ)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
1647-48
drawing (compositional study)
Musée du Louvre

"The composition [of Christ and the Woman of Samaria] is based on Guercino's earlier treatment of the subject in 1640.  The figures are smaller in relation to the overall picture space.  Christ seems less pedagogical in gesture and expression, and they seem on equal terms as they face each other across the well mouth."

Guglielmo Morghen after Guercino
Angelica and Medoro
(lost painting)
ca. 1790-1810
engraving
Harvard Art Museums

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Angelica and Medoro
(study for lost painting)
ca. 1647 (or 1642)
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Angelica and Medoro
(study for lost painting)
ca. 1647 (or 1642)
drawing
private collection

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Angelica and Medoro
(study for lost painting)
ca. 1647 (or 1642)
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

anonymous artist after Guercino
Angelica and Medoro
(lost painting)
17th century
copy drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Guercino
St Peter
1648
oil on canvas
private collection

 – quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)