'Monstrous Animal and a Peasant'

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino

Accession number WAG9213

Guercino liked to show off his inventive imagination by drawing bizarre or fantastical creatures for his own and his friends' amusement. This cockerel-like animal has been formed from a human foot and hand, the legs of a chicken and the ears of a dog. The drawing was once owned by William Roscoe (1753 - 1831), whose collection provided the core of the Walker's continental paintings and drawings. Its purchase was aided by the Art Fund in 1977.

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