GIOVANNI GUERRA (MODENA 1544-1618 ROME)

This drawing belongs to a series illustrating the Book of Esther. Most sheets carry extensive inscriptions on the verso, but the present drawing is an exception. Other drawings from the series are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Inv. WA 1947.189 and 190), the Musée du Louvre (Inv. 10559), the British Museum (Inv. 1975,0517.1 and 1975,0517.2; J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: Artists Working in Rome: c. 1550 to c.1640, London, 1983, nos. 191-2, pl. 181), and the Musea Brugge (inv. 2018.GRO0021.II; see V. D'haene, European Old Master Drawings from the Bruges Print Room, exhib. cat., Bruges, Brangwynmuseum, Musea Brugge, 2019, no. 10, ill.).