Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called il Guercino

St. John the Baptist in a landscape, seated on a rock, his head turned to the left

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Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino

(Cento 1591 - 1666 Bologna)

St. John the Baptist in a landscape, seated on a rock, his head turned to the left

Pen and brown ink

270 by 195 mm

This full length representation of St. John the Baptist has an unusual iconography. The Saint seated on a rock is turning his back to the viewer, while his head looks to the left, towards the lamb. Though there are a number of paintings representing John the Baptist in a landscape or in the desert recorded in the artist's Account Book ('Il Libro dei Conti'), none seems to correspond to the present sheet.

Stylistically this drawing must date to the second half of the 1640s (see also lot 138).

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