Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 8. An old man wearing a turban and a fur-lined coat, here identified as Annas (originally Christ before Annas).

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino

An old man wearing a turban and a fur-lined coat, here identified as Annas (originally Christ before Annas)

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino

Cento 1591–1666 Bologna

An old man wearing a turban and a fur-lined coat, here identified as Annas (originally Christ before Annas)


oil on canvas, reduced

87.2 x 64.7 cm.; 34⅜ x 25½ in.

Possibly Bartolomeo Fabri (1582–1646), Cento, 1621 (according to Malvasia 1678);

Anonymous sale, Paris, Piasa, 25 June 1999, lot 4 (as attributed to Guercino);

With Cesare Lampronti, Rome, by 2005;

From whom acquired by the present owner.

Possibly C.C. Malvasia, Felsina Pittrice: Vite de Pittori Bolognesi, vol. II, Bologna 1678, p. 365.