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Interior of a kitchen

Maker

(artist)
1591-1666

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1624

Medium

pen and ink (brown), wash (brown) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 26 cm
Width: 40.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1347

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

As is typical of Guercino’s genre scenes, it is not clear whether there is a hidden meaning in this comic narrative. Unnoticed by the young woman concentrating on her work in the foreground, a young child struggles with a large platter of food, which doubtlessly will fall to the floor. The man sitting on a log points to the infant in anticipation of the accident.

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

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

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

Il Guercino - Catalogo critico dei disegni, Bologna, 01/09/1968-18/11/1968

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

Eton, 1939 ...Less

Literature

Guercino: Mind to paper, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Courtauld Gallery, London, 2006-2007 Los Angeles, 2006
no. 6
ill. on p. 32

Drawings by Guercino from British collections, British Museum, London, 1991, 1991
cat. no. 189
pp. 31 note 92, 32 note 108, 89, 205, 210
ill. on p. 210

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 46
ill. on p. 56 ...More

Drawings by Guercino and other Baroque masters, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1977, 1977
p. 20

Il Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666): Catalogo critico dei disegni, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1968, 1969
cat. no. 216
pp. 201, 205, 206, 207, 208

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, graphite: "3".

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

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