Youth Kneeling before a Prelate (recto); Another Study of a Youth Kneeling before a Prelate (verso) ca. 1620 Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian This double-sided sheet features two closely similar sketches for the principal figures in Guercino's altarpiece representing Saint William, Duke of Aquitaine, receiving the monastic habit, painted in 1620 for the Church of San Gregorio in Bologna (now Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna). Both studies show one composition but reversed in design orientation with respect to the final altarpiece. Guercino's preparation for this celebrated early work is recorded in a number of composition sketches. In the painting, Saint William, kneeling before Saint Benedict of Ariane who is seated at the left, pulls a monastic cowl over his head; a drawing at Windsor (RL 12474) gives this solution. In the three drawings at the Louvre (inv. nos. 6884, 6885, 6886) and one at Frankfurt (Städel Museum inv.3922) Saint William, kneeling or standing before the p

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Youth Kneeling before a Prelate (recto); Another Study of a Youth Kneeling before a Prelate (verso) ca. 1620 Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian This double-sided sheet features two closely similar sketches for the principal figures in Guercino's altarpiece representing Saint William, Duke of Aquitaine, receiving the monastic habit, painted in 1620 for the Church of San Gregorio in Bologna (now Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna). Both studies show one composition but reversed in design orientation with respect to the final altarpiece. Guercino's preparation for this celebrated early work is recorded in a number of composition sketches. In the painting, Saint William, kneeling before Saint Benedict of Ariane who is seated at the left, pulls a monastic cowl over his head; a drawing at Windsor (RL 12474) gives this solution. In the three drawings at the Louvre (inv. nos. 6884, 6885, 6886) and one at Frankfurt (Städel Museum inv.3922) Saint William, kneeling or standing before the p

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