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The Guercino forger (18th century)
Landscape with staffage
Pen and iron-gall ink on paper
Laid down onto two album leaves
295x420 mm (original sheet)
Collection stamps:
.George Salting (Lugt 1212)
.Sir Robert Witt (Lugt 2228b)
.unreadable
Provenance:
.George Salting, England
.Sir Robert Witt, London
.private collection, Vienna
Prisco Bagni identified several drawings, previously attributed to Guercino, as by an eighteenth-century Emilian forger1. The style and composition of this drawing clearly reveal the hand of the Guercino forger.
1 Prisco Bagni, Il Guercino e il suo falsario: I disegni di paesaggio, Bologna, 1985.
