Live Auction 7744Old Masters & 19th Century Art Day Sale
Christie’s roundel
Lot 112

Attributed to Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (Cento 1591-1666 Bologna)

The Infant Christ with Saint Joseph

Closed8 July 2009

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GBP 10,000–15,000

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Attributed to Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (Cento 1591-1666 Bologna)
The Infant Christ with Saint Joseph
red chalk on paper, laid down on canvas, losses
11 x 9¾ in. (28 x 24.8 cm.)

(Possibly) Casa Gennari (with its associated canvas backing), and (possibly) the same drawing mentioned in the 1719 Casa Gennari inventory as 'Un dissegno d'un S. Giuseppe del Guerzino con cornice pelle dorata, e verde, con vetro L[ire] sei - 6 -' see E. Negro and N. Roio, L'eredità del Guercino. L'inventario legale di Giovan Francesco e Filippo Antonio Gennari, Modena, 2008, p. 67.

Specialist note

Another drawing of the same composition, which was the source for Bartolozzi's 1764 print and which was formerly in Consul Smith's collection and is now at Windsor Castle, is listed by D. Mahon and N. Turner as School of Guercino (D. Mahon and N. Turner, The Drawings of Guercino in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle, Cambridge, 1989, p. 150, no. 466, pl. 343). Mahon and Turner mention another drawing of the same subject formerly at Düsseldorf and etched in reverse (published by T. Bislinger, 1781). It is not possible, however, to be sure it if this is the present lot.
We are grateful to Nicholas Turner for his assistance in cataloguing this drawing.