Pope Gregory the Great

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian, 1591-1666
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About the Artwork

Pope Gregory the Great

between 1646 and 1647

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

1591-1666

Italian

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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)

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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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Published References

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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Credit Line for Reproduction

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.

Pope Gregory the Great
Pope Gregory the Great