GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI, KNOWN AS IL GUERCINO (Cento, 1591 - Bologna, 1666)
Three young singers around the music teacher, "Scuola di canto di Antonio Comi a Cento"
Pen and ink on paper, cm. 20x29,7. Framed
This magnificent drawing, beyond its evident quality and its remarkable pedigree, presents extraordinary reasons of interest. It is, in fact, in close connection with one of the 6 engravings made by Richard Dalton in 1764 within the collection "Eighty-two prints, engraved by F. Bartolozzi etc. from the original drawings of Guercino", published for the first time in London by the publisher Josiah Boydell in 1765 edited by Dalton himself (librarian of King George III), a collection that proved to be an extraordinary vehicle of Guercino's undying fame in Great Britain. Dalton was responsible for the transfer to England of the engraver Francesco Bartolozzi, who would later become the king's engraver. He was the main author of the engravings of the great Guercino collection, making 58, having already happily experimented with Guercino in the twelve branches of his works that he had just sold to Piranesi (who soon made them the generative nucleus for his "Raccolta di alcuni disegni del Barbieri da Cento detto il Guercino" printed in Rome in 1764). Dalton drew his engraving from a drawing, in contrast to the etching, which Bartolozzi himself had taken from an original drawing by Guercino, preserved, as the engraving itself informs us, by Antonio Comi in Cento. The copy made by Bartolozzi is today in the Royal Collections at Windsor Castle, while the drawing by Guercino until today was considered unavailable in the studies on the great artist from Cento. In the light of what is briefly summarized here, we can consider the sheet presented here as the original on which both the drawing by Bartolozzi and the engraving by Dalton depend.
Lower left stamp of the Giuseppe Vallardi Collection;upper left an inscription in pen which cannot be deciphered.
On the back in the upper left corner an inventory indication in red pencil: "L 119"; upper center a pen inventory indication: "N ° 120 DEL GUERCINO".
PROVENANCE:
17th century, Antonio Comi, Cento ?;
19th century, Giuseppe Vallardi Collection, Milan;
20th centuy, Private collection, England;
Sotheby's sale, London, April 20, 1967, l. 49;
Private collection, Rome.
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