Bearded Monk,

1630s

Lord Northwick collection (likely preceded by Casa Gennari-John Bouverie-Christopher Hervey or Elizabeth Bouverie); Rt. Hon. Sir John Rushout, 4th Bt., or John Rushout, 5th Bt. and 1st Lord Northwick, and thence by descent; their sale, Sotheby’s, London, November 18, 1919, lots 1–120, or November 1, 1920, lots 3–28 and 93–98; William Bateson, stamp (L. 2604a) recto, lower right, in black; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, April 23–24, 1929; where acquired by E. Parsons & Sons, London, 1929; purchased from Parsons in 1929 (see inscription) by Dan Fellows Platt, stamps (L. 750a and 2066b) verso, lower left on mount, in blue.;

Dated 1630’s (DiGrazia);

• Diane De Grazia, Guercino drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University, March ll through April 6, 1969, (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University, 1969)., no. 34
• Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977).
• David Stone, Guercino, master draftsman: works from North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museum; Bologna, Italy: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1991)., cat. nos. 87-91 (illus.); p. 198-207;
• Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 44, cat. no. 17; p. 45 (illus.); p. 46 (verso illus.); p. 257-258, app. no. 86; p. 258 (illus.)

• Drawings by Guercino and His Followers, April 8, 1974 - May 3, 1974