Studies for the Assumption of the Virgin

1650

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian, 1591-1666

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Studies for the Assumption of the Virgin

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Title Studies for the Assumption of the Virgin

Artwork Date 1650

Artist Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Life Dates 1591-1666

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 12 × 8 3/4 inches (30.5 × 22.2 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund and Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2016.32

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2016-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Scott-Elliot, A.M. Exhibition of Works from the Paul Oppé Collection: English Watercolours and Old Master Drawings. Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts. London, 1958, p. 58, cat. 383 [verso only].

Cummings, Frederick J. “The Assumption of the Virgin by Guercino,” Bulletin of the DIA 51, no. 2/3 (1972): p. 56, 58 (fig. 3 recto), 59 (fig. 4 verso).

Salerno, Luigi. I dipinti del Guercino. Rome, 1988, p. 340.

Stone, David M. “Studies for the Assumption of the Virgin (Detroit Institute of Arts, 1650).” In Guercino, Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections. Exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums, in conjunction with Nuova Alfa. Cambridge, 1991, pp. 131–34, cat. 57 (ill., recto and verso).

Mahon, Denis. Il Guercino, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1951–1666: disegni. Exh. cat., Museo Civico Archeologico, in conjunction with Nuova Alfa. Bologna, 1991, pp. 217–19, cat. 140 (ill., recto and verso).

Stone, David M. Guercino: catalogo completo dei dipinti. Florence, 1991, p. 266.

Mahon, Denis. Guercino: Master Painter of the Baroque. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington D.C., 1992, p. 290.

Bissell, R. Ward. “Assumption of the Virgin.” In Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2005, pp. 110, 111 nn. 16–20.

Ghetti, Enrico. "Da 'Madonna della neve' ad 'Assunzione della Vergine.' Un' altra pala del Guercino per Sebastiano Fabri." Paragone 69, no. 141 (September 2018): pp. 52; 72 (pl. 56).

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Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Studies for the Assumption of the Virgin, 1650, red chalk on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund and Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund, 2016.32.