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Mountainous Landscape with Figures, 18th century

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

Pen and reddish brown ink and brush and reddish brown wash on cream paper

  • Sheet: 10 3/4 × 16 5/16 inches (27.3 × 41.4 cm)

Gift of Lord and Lady Robert Witt

30.290

unidentified collector. Sir Robert and Lady Witt (London, England)

1930-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, pp. 304-305, no. A55.

Italian; after Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Mountainous Landscape with Figures, 18th century, pen and reddish brown ink and brush and reddish brown wash on cream paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lord and Lady Robert Witt, 30.290.