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Soldiers counting money
Marcello Durazzo
Guercino, Barbieri Giovanni Francesco
drawing
D1716
Unità di misura: mm; Altezza: 210; Larghezza: 275
penna e inchiostro
Anonymous in the Durazzo inventory, the drawing is now ascribed to Guercino, starting with the then still dubious attribution by Mario Bonzi. The genre subject, 'Soldiers counting money', does not currently find any correspondence within the artist's pictorial production, while two different copies, also in drawing, are known to exist, conserved in the Albertina in Vienna (inv. 2370) and in the Pinacoteca di Brera (inv. 340/ID), both attributed to the so-called 'Falsario del Guercino', an 18th century imitator of the master. (BOCCARDO, 1992) The drawing depicts two soldiers sitting and counting money.