Study for Mucius Scaevola,

ca. 1641–42

From Gibbons, “Catalogue of Italian Drawings...”: as Guercino School. (See reference Bib. 4362);

From Turner review in Art Bulletin: As Denis Mahon has kindly pointed out, this is an autograph study by Guercino for the figure of Mucius Scaevola in Guercino’s painting “Mucius Schaevola Thrusting his Hand into the Flames in the Presence of Kind Lars Porsenna”, in the Durazzo-Pallavicini Collection, Genoa (see P. Torriti, “La Galleria del Palazzo Durazzo-Pallavicini”, Genoa, 1967, fig. 202). (See reference Bib. 2659);

From Mahon and N. Turner, “Drawings of Guercino...”: mentioned under cat. no. 138, reaffirming it as an autograph drawing, and identifying its provenance as from the Casa Gennari.” (See reference Bib. 4534);

• Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: pp. 91-92, no. 237 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
• Nicholas Turner, "Review of "catalogue of Italian drawings in the Art Museum", Princeton University by Felton Gibbons," Art bulletin 62, no. 3 (Sept., 1980), p. 486-490.
  
• Denis Mahon and Nicholas Turner, The drawings of Guercino in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989)., p. 77-78, mentioned under cat. no. 138
• David Stone, Guercino, master draftsman: works from North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museum; Bologna, Italy: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1991)., p. 118, no. 2; p. 218, no. 98
• 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. 83, cat. no. 34; p. 84 (illus.); p. 86 (verso illus.)