1965.385: David with the Head of Goliath

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.385

People

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Italian (Cento, Italy 1591 - 1666 Bologna, Italy)

Title

David with the Head of Goliath

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296760

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Miss Mabel Tupper; to Paul J. Sachs (by 1931), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.385

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 267
• David M. Stone, Guercino: Master Draftsman, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 214, illus. p. 232
• Jean-Francois Méjanès, The Timeless Eye: Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, exh. cat., ed. Philip Rylands, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, 1999), p. 112
• Julian Brooks, Guercino: Mind to Paper, exh. cat., J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, 2006), p. 93, under cat. no. 33

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/20/2019 - 10/23/2019

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