Sunday, May 30, 2021

Guercino in Bologna - 1648

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Suicide of Cleopatra
1648
oil on canvas
Palazzo Rosso, Genoa

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Suicide of Cleopatra
1648
drawing (compositional study)
École des Beaux-Arts de Paris

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."  

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Hercules wielding his Club
1648
oil on canvas
private collection

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Hercules wielding his Club
1648
drawing (compositional study)
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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." 

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
The Annunciation
1648
drawing (compositional study)
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
The Annunciation
1648
drawing (compositional study)
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
The Annunciation
1648
drawing (figure study - Archangel Gabriel)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
The Annunciation
1648
drawing (compositional study)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
The Annunciation
1648
drawing (compositional study - Putti)
British Museum

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
The Annunciation
1648
drawing (figure study - Archangel Gabriel)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
The Annunciation
1648
drawing (figure study - Archangel Gabriel)
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
The Annunciation
1648
drawing (figure study - Archangel Gabriel)
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

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)