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After Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
The Head of the Virgin c.1625-1700
Black and red chalks on buff paper | 35.7 x 26. cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 903299
After Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
The Head of the Virgin c.1625-1700
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A copy of the head of the Virgin in Reni's Immaculate Conception, in the church of San Biagio, Forli.
The drawing was catalogued by Kurz (in K(B)) as an original study but is plainly a copy; an original study for the Virgin is in the Uffizi, inv. 1577-F (Guido Reni: Zeichnungen, Vienna 1981, no. 100). See S. Pepper, Guido Reni, 1984, under no. 123.Provenance
Listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800-20: p. 79, ‘Guido &c. Tom. 3’, among ’15 heads of Guido’.
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Medium and techniques
Black and red chalks on buff paper
Measurements
35.7 x 26. cm (sheet of paper)
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