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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts (Accession no. 1963.30.17330) / https://art.famsf.org/arthur-pond/madonna-and-child-watching-bird-tree-…IMAGE INFORMATION

La Madone à la plume un peu lavé de Guercino
Trans.: The Madonna in pen and ink a little washed by Guercino

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

November 1765

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, no. 96, 3

Notes:

There are two images of Mary after Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino) (1591-1666) in Arthur Pond's series "Prints in Imitation of Drawings." One of them, Madonna and child watching a bird in a tree, is pictured here.

No. 46 in Henry M. Hake, "Pond’s and Knapton’s Imitations of Drawing," Print Collector’s Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4 (1922): 324-349; the other, an image of the Virgin and child with St. Anne and St. John, is Hake No. 44.