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Self-Portrait before a Painting of "Amor Fedele"
Guercino1655
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Self-Portrait before a Painting of "Amor Fedele"
- Creator: Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
- Date Created: 1655
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 116 x 95.6 cm (45 11/16 x 37 5/8 in.) framed: 140.7 x 121.9 x 5.7 cm (55 3/8 x 48 x 2 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: Giovanni Donato Correggio [1608-1674], Venice, 1655.[1] Anonymous donation to Castle Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts, property of The Trustees of Reservations, Beverly, Massachusetts; (sale, Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 21-23 May 2004, 3rd day, no. 1487, as _Painter Standing beside a Canvas Depicting Cupid_ by an unidentified artist); (Old Art Limited, London); purchased 10 February 2005 through (Carol Selle, New York) by NGA. [1] _Il libro dei conti del Guercino, 1629-1666_, Barbara Ghelfi, ed., Bologna, 1997: no. 493, entry of 26 April 1655. The painting is listed in a Correggio collection inventory under 1655 as: "Un quadro con l'Amor fedele et eterno con un bellissimo cane levriero et il ritratto del signor Giovan Francesco Barbieri ditto Guercino fatto da lui medesimo porto d. 3 costò d. 91:12" (Linda Borean, _La quadreria di Agostino e Giovan Donato Correggio nel collezionismo veneziano del Seicento_, Udine, 2000: 179).
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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