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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Suicide of Cleopatra 1648 oil on canvas Palazzo Rosso, Genoa |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Suicide of Cleopatra 1648 drawing (compositional study) École des Beaux-Arts de Paris |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Suicide of Cleopatra 1648 drawing (compositional study) private collection |
"The payment of 125 ducats [for the Suicide of Cleopatra] from Monsignor Abate Carlo Emanuele Durazzo (1622-74) is recorded in the account book on 24 March 1648. The painting was documented in a mid-18th-century inventory of two Durazzo brothers in Genoa, and by 1756 had passed into the Brignole family. It entered the collection of the Comune di Genoa at the death of the Marchesa Maria Brignole Sale in 1889."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Hercules wielding his Club 1648 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Hercules wielding his Club 1648 drawing (compositional study) Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Annunciation 1648 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Communale, Forlì |
"In 1646, Guercino had painted an altarpiece of The Annunciation for his friend Francesco Maria Mastellari of Pieve di Cento, on which the composition of the Forlì picture is based. . . . Though painted for the church of S. Filippo Neri, Forlì, the altarpiece was kept in the church of the Natività della Vergine for a period in the early 19th century, and in 1863 was acquired by the local Pinacoteca Comunale."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Annunciation 1648 drawing (compositional study) Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Annunciation 1648 drawing (compositional study) Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Annunciation 1648 drawing (figure study - Archangel Gabriel) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Annunciation 1648 drawing (compositional study) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Annunciation 1648 drawing (compositional study - Putti) British Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Annunciation 1648 drawing (figure study - Archangel Gabriel) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Annunciation 1648 drawing (figure study - Archangel Gabriel) Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Annunciation 1648 drawing (figure study - Archangel Gabriel) Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giovanni Battista Cecchi after Guercino The Annunciation 1777 engraving Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)