Showing posts with label Guercino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guercino. Show all posts

Friday, 1 May 2015

Copy after Guercino, Saint Peter

At Horta in Brussels, they sell on 11 May 2015 a "Dutch School, ca. 1800" Denial of Saint Peter, estimated at 2,000 to 2,500 Euro.

It looks like a typical painting in the style of Gerrit van Honthorst and the like, but it turns out to be a reversed, after engraving copy of a Denial of Saint Peter by Guercino, from the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna. In this knowledge, the one for sale seems overestimated.

Sunday, 8 March 2015

Copy of recently rediscovered Guercino


At Dams (Italian auction house), they sell next week a 17th century Saint Sebastian. They don't seem to realise that it is a copy of a work by Guercino which was only rediscovered (or correctly attributed) in late 2014. The estimate of 1,800 Euro seems rather steep for a fairly mediocre copy though, but it makes for an interesting story. I don't know whether other old copies of the same work are known.