Landscape with Figures and a Farm House

18th Century Imitator of Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian

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This landscape and the three others (nos. 17.97.17, 80.3.292, and 37.165.108) are typical examples of the work of the forger or forgers of drawings by Guercino - especially of landscapes - who were presumably at work in Italy in the second half of the eighteenth century. All four are executed in a thick, pasty, dark red-brown ink that is the mark of such forgeries. Such drawings are sometimes direct copies after drawings by Guercino or facsimile reproductions thereof, but the four landscapes here seem rather to be pastiches, composite compositions utilizing motifs borrowed here and there from Guercino's landscapes.

Landscape with Figures and a Farm House, 18th Century Imitator of Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, Cento 1591–1666 Bologna), Pen and dark brown ink, brush and dark brown wash; traces of red chalk in the figures in the first draft.

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