Guercino
full name Giovanni Francesco Barbieri. Italian, Cento 1591-1666 Bologna
Landscape with a natural bridge.
260 x 419mm
Provenance: Dr. John O’Brien, Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Tunnard
David M. Stone., Guercino Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections, Cambridge, MA and Bologna, 1991, p 168 Cat 73;
‘…a…configuration of rocks and mountains is depicted in a very beautiful pen drawing of a Landscape with a Natural Bridge in the Tunnard Collection (260 x 419) which was exhibited at Vassar in 1961.
See Centennial Loan Exhibition, Drawings from Alumni Collections, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1961. Cat no 35, illustrated.
The late Sir Denis Mahon confirmed the attribution to Guernico, on the basis of a photograph, to Mr and Mrs Tunnard in 1984.