Madonna Mourning: Studies for the Entombment of Christ

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

c. 1656

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
Italian, 1591-1666

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Guercino
Title: Madonna Mourning: Studies for the Entombment of Christ
Origin: Italy
Date: 1651–1661
Medium: Red chalk on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in graphite: Illegible; inscribed verso, lower center, in graphite: "BB"; lower right, in graphite: "Caracci"
Dimensions: 168 × 272 mm
Credit Line: Bequest of Dr. William D. Shorey
Reference Number: 1993.206
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Denis Mahon, Il Guercino, Catalogo Critico dei Dipinti (Bologna, 1968), p. 209.

London, P.&D. Colnaghi, “An Exhibition of Old Master Drawings,” 28 June-21 July 1984, no. 21.
Cambridge, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, “Guercino, Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections,” 15 February-31 March 1991 no. 61; also traveled to The National Gallery of Canada/Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Ottawa, 13 May-16 June 1991 and The Cleveland Museum of Art, 27 August-13 October 1991.
The Art Institute of Chicago, 4 August 1994-31 January 1995.

P&D Colnaghi, London, 1984 [London 1984]. Bequeathed by Dr. William D. Shorey (died 1992), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1993.

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