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Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
An Personification of Learning c.1620-40
Pen and ink | 13.3 x 18.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 903296
Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
An Personification of Learning c.1620-40
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A drawing of a woman seated, dividers in her upheld left hand, books and an inkwell below her right hand, a winged putto behind her head; indications of a landscape beyond. The drawing is a first study for Reni's etching (Bartsch 18, p. 289, no. 16), in which the pose of the woman is the same but the putto stands to the right.
Inscribed below, 'di Guido'.Provenance
Listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800-20: p. 79, ‘Guido &c. Tom. 2’, among ‘7 Studies of the School of Guido’.
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Pen and ink
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13.3 x 18.5 cm (sheet of paper)
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