Landscape with Figures and a Farm House 1750–80 18th Century Imitator of Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian This landscape and the three others (nos. , , and ) are typical examples of the work of the forger or forgers of drawings by Guercino - especially of landscapes - who were presumably at work in Italy in the second half of the eighteenth century. All four are executed in a thick, pasty, dark red-brown ink that is the mark of such forgeries. Such drawings are sometimes direct copies after drawings by Guercino or facsimile reproductions thereof, but the
Landscape with Figures and a Farm House 1750–80 18th Century Imitator of Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian This landscape and the three others (nos. , , and ) are typical examples of the work of the forger or forgers of drawings by Guercino - especially of landscapes - who were presumably at work in Italy in the second half of the eighteenth century. All four are executed in a thick, pasty, dark red-brown ink that is the mark of such forgeries. Such drawings are sometimes direct copies after drawings by Guercino or facsimile reproductions thereof, but the four landscapes here seem rather to be pastiches, composite compositions utilizing motifs borrowed here and there from Guercino's Landscape with Figures and a Farm House 339022
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