Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Torso

Guido Reni
1575-1642

Torso

14 5/8 x 9 15/16 inches (371 x 252 mm)
Black and white chalk, on gray paper.
1961.34

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Study for the Christ in the "Crucifixion", Pinacoteca, Bologna.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso of an old lining, in pen and brown ink, "Guido Reni per il Crocifisso dei Cappucini di Bologna uno dei più".
Associated names
Fries, Moritz, Graf von, 1777-1826, former owner.
Lagoy, Jean-Baptiste de Meryan, marquis de, 1764-1829, former owner.
Dimsdale, Thomas, 1758-1823, former owner.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Bibliography
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Eleventh Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1961. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1961, p. 82.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 164.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 21, repr. [Kurt Zeitler]
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department