Seated Prophet

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk on two joined sheets of laid paper prepared with red wash

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall (approximate): 28 x 19.5 cm (11 x 7 11/16 in.)
    support: 30.6 x 22.1 cm (12 1/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1971.66.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. J.E. Colborne-Mackrell, by inheritance from her father, who lived in Hampstead, England; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1965, no. 50); Mr. [d. 1970] and Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet, Great Neck, Long Island, NY; purchased 19 October 1971 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1968

  • Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet, exh. circulated by the American Federation of Arts, New York, 1968, no. 32.

1974

  • NGA, Recent Acquisitions, 1974, 203.

Inscriptions

in later hand, lower center in brown ink: Guercino da Cento

Wikidata ID

Q64562089

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