Old Man Pointing, 1782

  • Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Italian, 1591-1666
  • Adam von Bartsch, Austrian, 1756-1821

Etching printed in brown ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 8 3/4 × 9 5/8 inches (22.2 × 24.4 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 7/8 inches (27.9 × 37.8 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S99.502

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Stamp, verso: J. PEOLI (Lugt 2020)

Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower right: A Bartsch sc: 1782 Inscribed, lower left: Guercino da Cento del: Inscribed, in ink, on strip of paper, taped to lower edge of sheet: No 99 1/2. Bust of an old man pointing with his left hand toward the right of the print. | By-Adam Bartsch. Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower right: 2

May 1894, J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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

Adam von Bartsch; after Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Old Man Pointing, 1782, etching printed in brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S99.502.