Three people contemplate the cadaver of Saint Petronilla. Etching by James Basire, 1764, after Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino.

  • Guercino, 1591-1666
Date:
[1764]
Reference:
37631i
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Description

Two women are mourning, and a man is praying. Related to a painting by Guercino of the death of Saint Petronilla, in the Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome, although the present composition shows an earlier moment, before her burial

Publication/Creation

[London] : [John Boydell], [1764]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with plate tone ; platemark 25.5 x 22.3 cm

Contributors

Lettering

James Basire fecit. il Guercino da Cento del.

References note

R. Weigel, Die Werke der Maler in ihren Handzeichnungen, Leipzig: R. Weigel, 1865, p. 276, no. 3257 ("Ein Mann und zwei Frauen bei der Leiche eines Mädchens. Feder mit Bister lavirt. Basire sc. H. 7" 9"', Br. 7" 1"'. Bartolozzi, Prints I. 66.")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 37631i

Reproduction note

After a drawing in the Royal Collection (no. RCIN 902550)

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