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Landscape with Figures, 18th century

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

Pen and brown ink on thin cream laid paper

  • Sheet: 11 1/16 × 16 1/2 inches (28.1 × 41.9 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1SDR141

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Watermark: [indecipherable] Stamp, in black, lower right corner: A.C. Poggi (Lugt 617) Stamp, in purple, lower right corner: Peoli (Lugt 2020)

Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper left: 75. | Col. Casimir Perier. Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper center: Tr [inverted] | Guercino

A. C. [de] Poggi (London, England, and Paris, France). J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)

May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 42. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 305, no. A56.

Italian; after Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Landscape with Figures, 18th century, pen and brown ink on thin cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR141.