A Reclining Woman Lifting a Curtain

Guercino (1591 - 1666)

Walker Art Gallery

1620 - 1640

This drawing shows the vivacious fluid line typical of Guercino's best pen and ink drawings. Its seeming freedom and spontaneity of line belies the fact that it was probably intended as a figure study for a painting from classical mythology, perhaps Danae or a rejected drawing for 'Semele and Jupiter'.

• Medium: pen & brown ink on paper
• Dimensions: 20 x 24 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £10600 ( Total: £106,162; Export stopped)
• ArtFunded in: 1992
• Vendor: Christie's

Provenance

1st Earl of Leicester; by descent; Christie's 2/7/91, lot 22; Private collection.

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