A Reclining Woman Lifting a Curtain by Guercino

A Reclining Woman Lifting a Curtain by Guercino, 1620 - 1640

© Walker Art Gallery

Details

Category:

Classical/Mythological

Medium:

Pen & brown ink on paper Dimensions: 20 x 24 cm

Art Fund grant:

£10,600 ( Total: £106,162; Export stopped)

Acquired in:

1992

Vendor:

Christie's

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'.

Provenance

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