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Accompanying the sixth and most significant exhibition of the Thaw Collection at the Morgan

Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman offers a comprehensive exploration of the artist’s graphic work

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Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman lenses and the art ofGuercino: Virtuoso Draftsman offers a comprehensive exploration of the artists graphic work, ranging from his early genre studies and caricatures, the dense and dynamic preparatory studies for his paintings, and to the highly finished chalk drawings and landscapes that were ends in themselves. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (15911666), was arguably the most interesting and diverse draftsman of the Italian Baroque era, a natural