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The Madonna and Child c.1600-50
Black chalk | 17.3 x 21.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 903418
After Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
The Madonna and Child c.1600-50
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A drawing of the Madonna with the sleeping Christ Child in her arms; oval composition. A copy after Guido Reni's etching (Bartsch 2).
The drawing is inscribed at lower left 'guido Boulenese' in an English hand of the mid-seventeenth century, often seen in tandem with a Lanier star (but not here).Provenance
In England by the mid-seventeenth century, possibly in the collection of Nicholas Lanier; presumably acquired by Charles II. 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 903411-3428). The Bonfiglioli inventory of 1696 does list 'Un Dissegno con la Mad.na e Putto di mano di Guido', but this drawing cannot have been in the Bonfiglioli collection.
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Medium and techniques
Black chalk
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17.3 x 21.3 cm (sheet of paper)
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