Seated Old Man with Right Arm Upraised (Tithonus) (recto); Seated Nude Youth (figure of Day) (verso), 1621, Red chalk on blue paper, 9 1/4 x 12 11/16 in. (23.5 x 32.2 cm)., Drawings, Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, Cento 1591–1666 Bologna), This study from life was intended for the elderly figure of Tithonus – the discarded lover of Aurora, goddess of dawn – who is seated on the left in Guercino's ceiling fresco of the ‘Aurora’ in the Casino Ludovisi, Rome, painted in 1621
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Seated Old Man, Right Arm Upraised, Tithonus, recto, Nude Youth, figure, Day, verso, 1621, Red chalk, blue paper, 9 1/4 x 12 11/16, 23.5 32.2 cm, Drawings, Guercino, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Italian, Cento, 1591–1666, Bologna, study, life, intended, elderly figure, discarded lover, Aurora, goddess, dawn, seated, left, ceiling fresco, ‘Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome, painted
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