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Mountainous Landscape with Figures

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Artist Italian, Artist
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Mountainous Landscape with Figures

18th century

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

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)

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Gift of Lord and Lady Robert Witt

30.290

Public Domain

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Stamp, in black, verso, upper right and lower left corners: [unidentified collector]

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unidentified collector.
Sir Robert and Lady Witt (London, England);
1930-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, pp. 304-305, no. A55.

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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.

Mountainous Landscape with Figures
Mountainous Landscape with Figures