A landscape drawing dominated by a towering mass of rock. A path with traveler’s winds about below
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A brown ink landscape drawing of a towering mass of rock in the midst of a desolate landscape. Smaller boulders and rocks litter the ground below the craggy mass and along a winding path. Various groups of travelers, on foot and horseback, populate the path. Large billowing clouds fill the wide stretch of sky while small structures can just be made out far off in the distance. Two large mountains can be seen on the horizon line. Among some scrub vegetation, one lone tree stands on a hill on the right.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1873
People
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Italian (Cento, Italy 1591 - 1666 Bologna, Italy)
Title
Landscape with Figures on a Road
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297370

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
26.6 x 46.2 cm (10 1/2 x 18 3/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Robert Lehman
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1873
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 39, n.p., repr., n.p., pl. 39
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 57, n.p., and p. 58, repr. (color)
  • David M. Stone, Guercino: Master Draftsman, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 158, 214, cat. no. 68, illus. p. 159

Exhibition History

  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/12/2015 - 07/15/2015

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