The Angel of the Annunciation
c. 1638/1639
Artist, Bolognese, 1591 - 1666
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sight size: 21.6 x 17.6 cm (8 1/2 x 6 15/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1984.3.10
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John Heidsieck, Tuxedo Park, NJ; Professor Julius S. Held, Old Bennington, VT (his mark, not in Lugt); NGA purchase in 1984.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1970
Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; traveling exhibition, 1970, no. 125.
1984
Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., January 1984.
1990
Julius S. Held, Drawings from His Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, 1990: no. 29 (checklist).
1991
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Il Guercino (1591-1666), Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, 1991: no. 105.
Bibliography
1970
Vitzthum, Walter. Review of Drawings from the Collection of Julius S. Held, The Burlington Magazine (August 1970): 554.
1988
Salerno, Luigi. I dipinti del Guercino. Rome, 1988: 262, under no. 177.
1989
Mahon, Denis and Turner, Nicholas. The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, Cambridge, 1989: 57, under nos. 94-97.
1991
Stone, David. "Supplement, Guercino Drawings in North American Collections, A Selective Checklist," in exh. cat. Guercino, Master Draftsman, Works from North American Collections, Harvard University and elsewhere, 1991: 220, no. 163.
Inscriptions
in unknown hand, on verso: Guercino
Wikidata ID
Q64572424