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Period: 17th century (5013)

Type: chalk (1606) | ink (2963) | watercolour (2151)

Style: Italian (1743)

Subjects: Guercino, 1591-1666 (1)

Keywords
coats of arms (775) | curtains and drapes (44) | ornamental medallions (156) | painters (artists) (360) | portraits (1315) | putti (630)

Two putti supporting a medallion portrait of Guercino

17th century

Gennari, Cesare    more

Chalk (red and black), pen and ink (brown), watercolour (brown) on paper

height: 27.9 cm; width: 41.7 cm

Inscription
Inscribed, graphite, recto, mount, frontespicio a Paesi, Dissegni del Cav. Gio. Franco. Barbieri intagliati da Gio. Penna in Parigi Cesare Genari Invenit Gioseppo Roli fece. Tommaso Colli forma in Bologna a S Tomaso d'Aquino
Signed, pen and ink, lower left, recto, Cesare Genari inlagliato da Gio:
Roli ... collezione Nicoli

Acquisition
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir); bequest; 1952
D.1952.RW.567

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London