Landscape with Figures and a Two-Arched Bridge

Imitator of Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian

1591–1666

Not on view

This landscape and the three others (acc. nos. 37.165.108, 80.3.292, and 37.165.99) are typical and competent 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.

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Title: Landscape with Figures and a Two-Arched Bridge
Artist: Imitator of Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, Cento 1591–1666 Bologna)
Date: 1591–1666
Medium: Pen and dark brown ink, some brush and dark brown ink
Dimensions: sheet: 7 13/16 x 11 1/4 in. (19.9 x 28.6 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Object Number: 17.97.17
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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