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Amnon and Tamar
Guercino1649
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Amnon and Tamar
- Creator: Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
- Date Created: 1649
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 18.9 x 26.1 cm (7 7/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: The artist's nephews, Benedetto and Cesare Gennari, Casa Gennari, Bologna; by descent to Carlo Gennari; Francesco Forni, Bologna; John Bouverie (d. 1750); his nephew, Mr. Christopher Hervey (d. 1786); his aunt, Elizabeth Bouverie (d. 1798); by inheritance to Sir Charles Middleton (1726-1813); by descent to his grandson, Charles Noel (1781-1866), who was created 1st Earl of Gainsborough in 1841 (sale, London, 20 July 1859, possibly lot 71, "a study of two figures"; the Bouverie mark, Lugt 325, was probably placed on the drawing at this sale). Private collection (sale, Bonham's, London, 16 June 1988, no. 11); (Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London); NGA purchase in 1989.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: red chalk on laid paper
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