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Attributed to Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
Polyphemus c.1635-40
Pen and ink over black chalk | 36.7 x 24.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 903385
Attributed to Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
Polyphemus c.1635-40
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A schematic drawing of a Cyclops, full length, embracing a rock as if to hurl it.
The drawing corresponds almost line for line with RCIN 903386. H. McBurney & N. Turner ('Drawings by Guido Reni for Woodcuts by Bartolomeo Coriolano', Print Quarterly, 1988, pp. 226-42) published both drawings as models by Guido Reni for his collaborator Bartolomeo Coriolano, who produced several chiaroscuro woodcuts after Reni's designs in the years around 1640, most relevantly the large Fall of the Giants of 1638 (Bartsch XII, p. 113, no. 11; RCIN 807713).
For other drawings attributed to Reni in this style, see RCIN 903379-84 etc.Provenance
Listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800-20: p. 80, ‘Guido &c. Tom. 4’, among ‘8 by Guido, with a Pen, For Coriolanus to imitate in Wood-cuts’
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink over black chalk
Measurements
36.7 x 24.7 cm (sheet of paper)
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