Live Auction 5472Old Master, 19th Century & British Drawings & Watercolours
After Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-1642)
Lot 1177

After Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-1642)

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Closed9 December 2010

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GBP 2,125

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After Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-1642)
The Adoration of the Shepherds
with inscription 'No 160/9ss/peint sur vellum' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour and gum arabic, on vellum
12 x 14¼ in. (30.5 x 36.2 cm.)

John Marsh Evans (+); Christie's, London, 9 July 1889, lot 126 (3 gns to Robinson).

Specialist note

The sale of the collection of J.M. Evans, offered at Christie's King Street, 9 July 1889, included a number of other watercolours after works by important Old Masters such as Human and Divine Love by Titian, The Magdalene after Andrea del Sarto, and The Marchese Brignoli after Van Dyck.

The present watercolour was executed after the painting by Guido Reni in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.