About the Artwork
Flying Putto and the Arm of a Man
between 1640 and 1649
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
1591-1666
Italian
Unknown
Red chalk on cream laid paper
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 5 7/16 inches (14.9 × 13.8 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of C. Edmund Delbos
47.359
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: Guercino | B. 10' - Parsons - 1920- Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper right: 45 - and 102 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right: 13 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower center: 9
Stamp, in green, verso, lower left: Platt (Lugt Suppl. 750a)
Provenance
D. F. Platt (Englewood, New Jersey, USA);C. Edmund Delbos (New York, New York, USA);
1947-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 80, no. 30.
Stone, David M. Guercino, Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections. Exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991, pp. 215-216 (pl. C).
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Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Flying Putto and the Arm of a Man, between 1640 and 1649, red chalk on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of C. Edmund Delbos, 47.359.
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