A young man pouring liquid into a vase through a funnel seen between a woman facing to left and a man facing to right. Etching by J. Basire, ca. 1763, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.

  • Guercino, 1591-1666.
Date:
[1763 or 1764]
Reference:
34801i
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Previous title, replaced September 2023 : A young man pouring water through a funnel into a vase with a man and a woman standing back to back behind. Etching by J. Basire after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.

Description

Possibly a trompe l'oeil work. The funnel appears to be in two different planes: both supported by the head of the woman and the man, and placed between them and the viewer (thus concealing the tops of their heads and located in the same plane as the shelf on which the vase sits)

Publication/Creation

[London] : [Boydell], [1763 or 1764]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image and border 19.2 x 16.3 cm

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Lettering

Basire sculp ; Guercino del

References note

R. Weigel, Die Werke der Maler in ihren Handzeichnungen, Leipzig: R. Weigel, 1865, p. 273, no. 3216 ("Geistlicher Janus mit knieendem Mann. Feder. J. Basire sc. H. 6" 8"', Br. 5" 8"'. Bartolozzi, Prints I. 67; auch Italian School of Design 40.)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 34801i

Reproduction note

After a drawing in the Royal Collection (no. RCIN 902551), acquired in ca. 1758-1763, first described in an inventory of c.1800-1820 as "A carricatura of a figure pouring liquor", and subsequently described as "A symbolic or magical subject c. 1620-40"

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