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Landscape with Arched Ruins, 18th century

  • Italian
  • Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Italian, 1591-1666

Pen and dark brown ink on cream laid paper

  • Sheet: 10 7/8 × 16 1/4 inches (27.6 × 41.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund

34.145

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Stamp, in backing sheet, lower right corner: F. Abbott (Lugt 970)

Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower right corner, verso of backing sheet: GP. [GS?]

F. Abbott (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK). Dr. Karl Lilienfeld (Berlin, Germany)

1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 306, no. A57.

Italian; after Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Landscape with Arched Ruins, 18th century, pen and dark brown ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 34.145.