The Madonna and Child with an Escaped Goldfinch

early 1630s

Guercino

Artist, Bolognese, 1591 - 1666

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk on thin laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26.3 x 20.3 cm (10 3/8 x 8 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.21.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Hubert de Marignane (stamp, HM, Lugt undescribed); Schaeffer, New York; Richard Krautheimer and Trude Krautheimer-Hess, New York, 1958 (stamp, R&TK in rectangle, Lugt undescribed) (their sale, New York, Christie's, 10 January 1996, lot 41); (David Tunick, New York); purchased by NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1961

  • Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Richard Krautheimer, Institute of Fine Arts, New York, 1961 (no cat.).

1963

  • Italian Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Richard Krautheimer, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, 1963, no. 21.

1966

  • Italian Master Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Richard Krautheimer, Duke University, Durham, 1966, no. 17.

Bibliography

1996

  • Sutton, Peter C. "Past Masters," Christie's International Magazine XIII (January/February 1996), 15, 16, fig. 13.

Inscriptions

illegible inscription (now abraded) at lower left; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite (trimmed): DTTS

Wikidata ID

Q64572429


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