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Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
Saint Proculus c.1613-14
Black and white chalks on blue-grey paper | 39.6 x 22.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 903355
Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
Saint Proculus c.1613-14
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A study from a model, semi-nude with leg raised, for the figure of St Proculus in Reni's huge Madonna della Pietà (or Pietà dei Mendicanti), painted as the high altar of the Chiesa dei Mendicanti in Bologna and now in the Pinacoteca.
Three further drawings for the composition are in the Palazzo Rosso, Genoa, one of which is inscribed by Reni with the date 13 November 1613, establishing that Reni was then working on the design (though he was still in Rome at that date). The painting was installed in the church by November 1616. Two further studies for the painting are at RCIN 903356 and 903364.
See S. Pepper, Guido Reni, 1984, under no. 46; Guido Reni und Europa, Frankfurt 1988, cat. B16.Provenance
Listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800-20: p. 80, ‘Guido &c. Tom. 4’, among ’18 Studies for Draperies’.
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Black and white chalks on blue-grey paper
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39.6 x 22.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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