Kosmograaf

GUERCINO – Studio of

432 Scholar in his study

Inv. no. H 026
Red chalk, heightened with white, on pale blue paper. Framing line in black chalk.
202 x 254 mm
Inscribed on the verso, lower left: guasino (pencil)
Inv. 1854: F 26 (“Guercino, een Sterrekundige”); inv. 1864: H 26
Provenance: Unknown collector (L. 737); Odescalchi; acquired for the Museum in 1790 (L. 2392)
Literature: Meijer 1984, p. 40, 67, fig. 55, p. 72 (erroneous dimensions), p. 74; Van Tuyll, in exh. cat. Haarlem 1991, p. 198.

The armillary sphere, the hourglass and the books designate this scholar as a cosmographer or an astronomer.