About the Artwork
Pope Gregory the Great
between 1646 and 1647
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
1591-1666
Italian
Unknown
Pen and dark brown ink on cream laid paper
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 6 3/8 inches (20 × 16.2 cm) Framed: 17 × 14 3/4 × 1 inches (43.2 × 37.5 × 2.5 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman
65.61
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper right corner: [indecipherable] | 201 [sideways] Inscribed, in red pencil, verso, lower left: X Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: Guercino | B-19 Parsons 1931 | ex Wm Bateson Gattes? [partially erased]
Stamp, in black, lower right: Bateson (Lugt Suppl. 2604a) Stamp, in gray, on mount, verso, lower left: Platt (Lugt Suppl. 750a)
Provenance
Benedetto and Cesare Gennari (Bologna, Italy) (Lugt Suppl. 2858c);1763, Carlo Gennarni, grandson of Cesare (Bologna, Italy);
ca. 1780, Edward Bouverie (England);
1810, Mr. Harvey, nephew of Bouverie (England);
Lord Northwick (Northwick Park and Cheltenham, England); [drawing not traceable in the Northwick sales of 1920-21, but it is mounted with a border decorated with pen lines and dashes that can be traced to that collection; see Bologna 1969, p. 13 or Lugt Suppl. 2858c]
William Bateson (London, England);
April 23-24, 1929, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) no. 59 (with Northwick cited as a previous owner);
Parsons, possibly Parsons and Sons (London, England);
Dr. E. Platt (Englewood, New Jersey, USA);
1964, H. S. Schaeffer (New York, New York, USA);
1965, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1965-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Art in Italy: 1600-1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1965, no. 111.
Art in Italy. Exh. cat., Miami Art Center. Miami, 1969, no. 34.
Stone, David M. Guercino, Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections. Exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums. Cambridge, Massachusetts 1991, pp. 216, 241 (pl. M), no. 36.
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 78-79, no. 29.
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Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Pope Gregory the Great, between 1646 and 1647, pen and dark brown ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, 65.61.
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