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Two nymphs and a satyr

Maker

(artist)
1591-1666

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1625

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, laid down on a 'Casa Gennari' mount

Dimensions

Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 13.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1346

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This imaginary scene of remarkable freshness shows two young women sitting outdoors in the bright sun. The artist has arranged the figures so that the viewer, like the voyeuristic satyr, watches as if hidden behind nearby bushes. The drawing belongs to a group known as capricci which are thought to have been produced for the amusement of Guercino and his friends.

Provenance

by descent to the artist's nephews, Benedetto Gennari (1633-1715) and Cesare Gennari (1637-1688), 1666; by descent to Cesare’s sons, Gianfrancesco Gennari (1671-1727) and Filippo Antonio Gennari (1677-1751), 1719; by descent to Gianfrancesco's son, Carlo Gennari (1716-1790); presumably Francesco Forni, Bologna (18th century) or Abbé Bonducci, Florence (18th century); presumably acquired from either of those by John Bouverie, England (ca. 1722/1723-1750), 1741 or 1745; by descent to his sister, Anne Hervey (d. 1757); by descent to her son, Christopher Hervey (d. 1786); by descent to his aunt, Elizabeth Bouverie (d. 1798); by descent to Sir Charles Middleton, later 1st Baron Barham (1726-1813); by descent to his son-in-law, Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baron Barham (1759-1838); by descent to his son, Charles Noel, later 1st Earl of Gainsborough (1781-1866); by descent to Charles Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough (1850-1926); his sale, Christie's (London), 27 July 1922, part of lot 81 (a box containing 68 drawings by Guercino and others); purchased there by F.R. Meatyard (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£90 for the lot); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Guercino - Mind to Paper, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 22/02/2007-13/05/2007

Guercino - Mind to Paper, J Paul Getty Museum & Los Angeles & California & USA, 24/10/2006-21/01/2007

Michelangelo to Matisse - Drawing the Figure, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20/11/1999-27/02/2000 ...More

Drawings by Guercino from British Collections, British Museum, London, 1991

Drawings by Guercino and other Baroque Masters, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/02/1977-01/03/1977

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

catalogue untraced, Eton College, 1950

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 03/01/1938-12/03/1938

catalogue untraced, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1923 (Apr. - Jul.) ...Less

Literature

Carnets d'etudes 4: Dessins italiens de la collection Jean Bonna., Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts, 2006
pp. 39, 40 note 4

Guercino: Mind to paper, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Courtauld Gallery, London, 2006-2007 Los Angeles, 2006
no. 10
ill. on p. 40

La scuola del Guercino, Modena, 2004
pp. 287, 292
fig. 292 ...More

Michelangelo to Matisse - Drawing the Figure, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999 - 2000
cat. no. 182
pp. 178, 227, 239
ill.

Drawings by Guercino from British collections, British Museum, London, 1991, 1991
cat. no. 203
pp. 31 note 92, 32 note 108, 205
fig. 4 on p. 25 and pl. 30

Drawings by Guercino and other Baroque masters, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1977, 1977
p. 19

Mahon, Denis. "Drawings by Guercino in the Casa Gennari" Apollo 86 (1968): 346-357.
ill. on p. 355

Il Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666): Catalogo critico dei disegni, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1968, 1969
cat. no. 245
pl. 245

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 79

Marangoni, Matteo, Guercino: i grandi maestri del disegno, Milan, 1959
p. 13
pl. 19

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 76

Drawings of the old masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1943
p. 24

17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1938

Seventeenth-Century Art in Europe, Popham, A.E.
p. 103
pl. 454

Russell, Archibald G.B., Drawings by Guercino, London, 1923
pp. 21, 39
pl. VIII ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, fragment: upper portion of a small crown with a trefoil at centre (no match found in Heawood, Piccard or Briquet).

Inscription: 1346

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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