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The Infant Saint John the Baptist seated in a landscape c. 1650-1700
Red chalk, with stumping | 21.3 x 27.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 902387
School of Guercino (Cento 1591-Bologna 1666)
The Infant Saint John the Baptist seated in a landscape c. 1650-1700
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A full-length composition drawing in which the Infant Baptist is seated on a low rock, holding a reed cross upright in his left hand and looking downwards at a scroll, which hangs between both hands.
Etched in reverse, with elaborations, by F. Bartolozzi (Boydell, I, 12; Calabi 2133).Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist to Benedetto and Cesare Gennari; from whose descendants purchased by Richard Dalton for George III, c.1758-63; first recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1800-1820 (Inv.A, p.60)
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Medium and techniques
Red chalk, with stumping
Measurements
21.3 x 27.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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Other number(s)
RL 2387
