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Busts of a Man and a Woman in South-Eastern European Costumes
Also titled Borstbeelden van een man en een vrouw in Zuid-Oost Europese kostuums
Guercino (Cento, 1591–1666)
c. 1645 - c. 1655
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 300 mm x width 224 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the J.W. Edwin Vom Rath Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
In this drawing Guercino may have focused on a subject that was particularly popular with Northern artists: the ill-matched love between an unattractive old man and a beautiful young woman. The delicate use of red chalk indicates that the artist considered the drawing as an independent work of art; perhaps it was intended for sale.
