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A Reclining Woman Lifting a Curtain

Guercino, 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'.

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Title of artwork, date

A Reclining Woman Lifting a Curtain, 1620–1640

Date supported

1992

Medium and material

Pen & brown ink on paper

Dimensions

20 x 24 cm

Grant

10600

Total cost

106162

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