Personification of Justice

c. 1640

Guercino

Associated Names
Guercino

Artist, Bolognese, 1591 - 1666

The image shows a figure in a three-quarter view standing with a slight lean. The person is holding a set of scales in a vertical position with their right arm raised. The figure's facial features are delicately sketched with a gentle expression, and they have wavy hair styled voluminously. The figure is wearing a draped garment that loosely hangs around their body. The background is plain, and there are no additional objects present besides the scales in the figure's hand.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 17.6 × 16.4 cm (6 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.40.58

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Casa Gennari, Bologna. Cholvich collection (according to inscription on mount). (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1994); Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • An Exhibition of Master Drawings, Colnaghi, New York and London, 1994, no. 28.

Inscriptions

by later hand, verso of mount in brown ink: Cholvic

Watermarks

crest, present but unidentified

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