- Museum number
- 1946,0713.237
- Description
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The Coronation of the Virgin, study for a painting; with four saints below, one pointing upwards
Black chalk, with grey-brown wash, heightened with white, on blue-grey paper
- Production date
- 1590-1642
- Dimensions
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Height: 359 millimetres
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Width: 242 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- A study for the artist's first public commission (c.1595 to 1598), 'The Coronation of the Virgin with four saints', painted for the church of San Bernardo, Bologna and now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna (Pepper pl. 1). The painting differs from this study in a number of respects, most notably in the reduction of the scale of the figures in the upper register which has the effect of pushing them backwards. Popham published this drawing as the work of the Paduan painter Stefano dell'Arzere (1515-1564), the correct attribution is due to Kurz.
Lit.: A.E. Popham, 'Catalogue of Drawings in the Collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.R.S., now in the possession of his Grandson, T. Fitzroy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham', London, 1935, p. 20, no. 7 (as North Italian School, XVI century); A.E. Popham, ' Disegni Veneziani acquistati recentemente dal British Museum', "Arte Veneta", 3, 1947, p. 230, fig. 185 (as Stefano dall'Arzere); O. Kurz, 'The Italian Drawings at Windsor Castle, Bolognese Drawings of the XVII and XVIII centuries', London, 1955, under no. 335, p. 116; K. Andrews, 'An early Guido Reni', 'The Burlington Magazine', CIII, 1961, p. 462, fig. 32; D.S. Pepper, 'Guido Reni's early drawing style', "Master Drawings", VI, 4, Winter 1968, p. 364; N. Turner, 'Italian Baroque Drawings', London, 1980, no. 39, p. 96; V. Birke, in exhib. cat., Vienna, Albertina, 'Guido Reni: Zeichnungen', 1981, no. 1; D.S. Pepper, 'Guido Reni', Oxford, 1984, under no. 1 (with further literature); D. Benati, 'Disegni Emiliani del Sei-Settecento, come nascono i dipinti', Milan, 1991, no. 34.1, pp. 131 and 133; E. Kasten, in Arzere entry in 'Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon', 5, Munich-Leipzig, 1992, p. 361
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1980 Oct-Nov, Albertina, Vienna, 'Guido Reni', no. 1
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.237
