Francesco Bartolozzi, R.A. (Florence 1725-1815 Lisbon)
Lot 257

Francesco Bartolozzi, R.A. (Florence 1725-1815 Lisbon)

The Assassination of Amnon, after Guercino

Closed8 December 2011

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GBP 2,000

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Francesco Bartolozzi, R.A. (Florence 1725-1815 Lisbon)
The Assassination of Amnon, after Guercino
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, unframed
8 11/16 x 11 9/16 in. (21.7 x 29.2 cm.)

Specialist note

After a drawing at Windsor, which was engraved by Bartolozzi but with some differences (D. Mahon and N. Turner, The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, Cambridge, 1989, no. 52). There is another version of the composition by Bartolozzi in the collection of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (exhibited in Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum, 1962, no. 58).