GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI KNOWN AS GUERCINO (CENTO 1591-BOLOGNA 1666)
A recumbent male nude
c.1618-19RCIN 991227
As a young man Guercino ran a life-drawing studio in the town of Cento, emulating the Carracci academy in Bologna, fifteen miles (25 km) to the south. The model drawn here posed often for Guercino and appears in several drawings and paintings of the period.
No. 124