29,5" IVAN KRAMSKOI "Portrait of an Unknown Woman" painting art printed on canvas
IVAN KRAMSKOI (1837 - 1887)
Title of artwork: "Portrait of an Unknown Woman"
Ready to hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe. Outer frame are not included!
Year: 1883
Technique: printed on canvas nowadays
Condition: perfect
Diagonal: 29,5" or 75 cm.
Size: 23,6" x 17,7" (in) or 60 x 45 cm.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known as Guercino, was an Italian
Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region. The vigorous
naturalism of his early manner contrasts with the classical equilibrium of his
later works. His many drawings are noted for their luminosity and lively style.
He created works that can be called fully baroque in the stylistic sense of the
term. Guercino apparently taught himself, working largely from engravings and
such paintings as were available locally. He said that the picture that
influenced him most was Ludovico Carracci's Madonna with St. Francis in a local
church. From it Guercino learned about deep, rich colors, applied loosely in
the Venetian way, and about the new, more intimate manner of interpreting
religious themes. Guercino was remarkable for the extreme rapidity of his
executions: he completed no fewer than 106 large altarpieces for churches, and
his other paintings amount to about 144. He was also a prolific draftsman. His
production includes many drawings, usually in ink, washed ink, or red chalk. Most
of them were made as preparatory studies for his paintings, but he also drew
landscapes, genre subjects, and caricatures for his own enjoyment. Guercino's
drawings are known for their fluent style in which "rapid, calligraphic
pen strokes combined with dots, dashes, and parallel hatching lines describe
the forms".
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