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After Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
The Virgin and Child with St John c.1600-1700
Red chalk | 22.3 x 17.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 903413
After Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
The Virgin and Child with St John c.1600-1700
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A drawing of the Madonna and Child, the infant Baptist kissing Christ's foot. Oval.
The composition corresponds in most respects (and in the same direction) to Reni's etching, Bartsch 7, but here Christ is raising his left hand in blessing, suggesting that the present composition was itself intended for a print. There are several close variants of the composition in drawing, painting and print, and their interrelationship is far from clear: see V. Birke, The Illustrated Bartsch, 40 (Commentary, Part 1), 1987, pp. 301-4.Provenance
Listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800-20: p. 80, ‘Guido &c. Tom. 5’, among ‘18 Drawings of Madonnas, most of them by Guido; etched by his scholars, these were in the Buonfigliuola collection’ (RCIN 903411-28). The Bonfiglioli inventory of 1696 does list 'Un Dissegno con la Mad.na e Putto di mano di Guido', but a provenance of 903418 from the Bonfiglioli collection is demonstrably wrong, and it is highly unlikely that all the others in this group came from that collection.
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Red chalk
Measurements
22.3 x 17.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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