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After Guercino (Cento 1591-Bologna 1666)
Two women in long, flowing dresses c. 1637
Red chalk offset, retouched in red chalk of a darker tone | 26.6 x 20.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 903043
After Guercino (Cento 1591-Bologna 1666)
Two women in long, flowing dresses c. 1637
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An offset after a three-quarter-length study with, on the right, a woman wearing a headdress, turned to the left and looking downwards, making a gesture of surprise with her right hand. The second woman, on the left, looks back at her companion with her arms outstretched to the left.
This is a coarsely retouched offset of RCIN 902789 (recto) to the original location of which (in one of the albums at Windsor) the reference in Inventory A alludes. The drawing is related to Salome Receiving the Head of St John the Bap. from an Executioner, in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes. RCIN 903171 is another offset from RCIN 902789.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.71: 'Two half length Women figures. TOM IX.. P.10')
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Medium and techniques
Red chalk offset, retouched in red chalk of a darker tone
Measurements
26.6 x 20.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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Other number(s)
RL 3043
