Live Auction 1538Old Master & British Drawings & Watercolours
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (Cento 1591-1666 Bologna)
Lot 118 FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
(Lots 109, 118, 125, 129, 130, and 138)

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

Two angels among the clouds, gesturing to an event below

Closed10 July 2014

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GBP 22,500

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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (Cento 1591-1666 Bologna)
Two angels among the clouds, gesturing to an event below
red chalk
8 7/8 x 7½ in. (22.5 x 18.8 cm.)

Specialist note

This drawing was formerly associated with Guercino's picture of Saint Thomas Aquinas writing the Eucharist, dating from around 1662, in San Domenico, Bologna, but it is in fact likely to be earlier in date.