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Guercino’s ‘Moses’: a recent addition to the artist’s ‘prima maniera’
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 912-20
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Author:
Treves, Letizia (Treves, Letizia)
Subjects
artists:
Barbieri, Giovanni Francesco, called Il Guercino
collectors and dealers:
Este family / Rothschild, Jacob
dates:
1620-1629
museums and institutions:
Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury, Great Britain
subjects:
Italian art / Moses / Provenance / Collectors / Copies
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Moses, by Guercino. c.1618–19. Oil on canvas, 72 by 63 cm. (Rothschild Foundation, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; photograph Moretti Fine Art).
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2. Detail of Fig.1.
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3. King David, by Guercino. c.1617–18. Oil on canvas, 88.5 by 72 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen; Bridgeman Images).
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4. Head of an old man, by Guercino. c.1619–20. Oil on canvas, 63 by 48.3 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
5. Elijah fed by ravens, by Guercino. 1620. Oil on canvas, 195 by 156.5 cm. (National Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
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6. Moses, by Bernardino Cervi after Guercino. 1624. Engraving, 13.5 by 7.4 cm. (Fondo Corsini, Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Rome).
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7. Moses, by Adam Bartsch after Guercino. Engraving. (location unknown).
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8. Detail of Fig.9.
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9. Moses with raised hands; mount depicts a fanciful border with leaves, a shell, humanoid figures, and a cartouche that has been cut, by Jan de Bisschop. Brown wash and ink on antique laid paper, framing line in gold; mount: graphite, brown wash and gold, 26.3 by 22.1 cm. (mount), 39.5 by 22.5 cm. (including strip at bottom). (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA; photograph President and Fellows of Harvard College).
Obituary
Jacob Rothschild (1936–2024)
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 538–540
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Author:
Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury, Great Britain / Spencer House, London, Great Britain / National Gallery, London, Great Britain / National Heritage Memorial Fund / Heritage Lottery Fund
patrons:
Rothschild, Jacob
subjects:
Patronage / Commissions / Country houses / Collecting / Collectors / French art / French decorative art / Restoration (process)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (‘Man in a Chair’), by Lucian Freud. 1989. Oil on canvas, 114.3 by 79.7 cm. (Private collection, on loan to the National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. Louis XVI, by Antoine-François Callet, in a frame attributed to François-Charles Buteux. 1781–82. Oil on canvas in gilded oak frame, 280 by 180 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
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3. Boy building a house of cards, by Jean-Siméon Chardin. 1735. Oil on canvas, 81 by 101 cm. (Private collection, on loan to Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; Bridgeman Images).