Self-Portrait of Guercino
Not on view
This print is based on a painting by Benedetto Gennari at Windsor Castle which reproduces a lost painting by Guercino (when Richard Dalton purchased the oil for George III, it was considered a signature work). Serving as the frontispiece to a volume that promoted the king's unrivalled collection of Guercino drawings, Bartolozzi's print was first published by Dalton in 1764. In the image, Guercino works on a painting of Cupid as a hunter, carrying a bow and arrows, and accompanied by a hound. London publishers, John and Josiah Boydell, reissued the print in the mid-to-late 1790s shortly after acquiring Dalton's related set of printing plates.
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