Landscape with Fortress and River, second half 18th century

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper mounted on paperboard

Dimensions

sheet: 27.9 × 42 cm (11 × 16 9/16 in.)
mount: 30.5 × 45 cm (12 × 17 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ian Woodner

Accession Number

1978.83.1

Artists / Makers

Anonymous Artist (artist)

Guercino (artist after) Bolognese, 1591 - 1666

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: none; verso: in graphite in later hand, on mount, upper right: 20391 / 14 x 20; center verso: No 514; center right verso: Guerchin / 15

Marks and Labels

recto: at lower right: CB in blue rectangle (unidentified, not in Lugt?); at lower right: DCB in red (unidentified, Lugt 735a), Jean Cantacuzène (Lugt 4030), and Wilhelm Alexander Freund (Lugt 954); verso of mount: none

Provenance

Francis H. Egerton, Eighth Earl of Bridgewater (1756-1829); Dr. Wilhelm Alexander Freund (1833-1917), Berlin (Lugt 954). (sale, Amsterdam, C. F. Roos & Co., 19-21 February 1906, no. 23 as Guercino); unidentified collector "DCB" (Lugt 735a); Jean Cantacuzène (1863-1934), Bucharest (Lugt 4030), by 1932; J. Curtis; Ian Woodner, New York; gift to NGA in 1978.

Associated Names

C. F. Roos & Co.
Cantacuzène, Jean
Curtis, J.
Egerton, Eighth Earl of Bridgewater, Francis H.
Freund, Wilhelm Alexander, Dr.
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1932: Desenul Italian in Secolele al XVI-lea - XIX-lea, Muzeul Toma Stelian, Bucharest, 1932, no. 47, plate V (reproduced on title page)(as Guercino).

1971: Woodner Collection I: A Selection of Old Master Drawings before 1700, William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour, 1971-72, no. 47 (as Guercino).

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 72 (as a work by Guercino).

Bibliography

1985: Bagni, P., IL GUERCINO E IL SUO FALSARIO, Bologna: 1985, 127 (falsario)).