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Guillaume Courtois

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Guillaume Courtois or italianized as Guglielmo Cortese, called Il Borgognone or Le Bourguignon, was a Free Burgundian-Italian painter, draughtsman and etcher. He was mainly active in Rome as a history and staffage painter and worked for high-level private patrons as well as large public commissions. He was a skilled portraitist, manifesting realistic sensitivity and a peculiar expressiveness. He left a large number of preparatory drawings which testify to his productivity.

Source: Artsy · Trust score: 85% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (8)

Cavalry Skirmish

1800 · Brush and brown wash, heightened with gum arabic and lead white (discolored), with black chalk over graphite, on brown wove paper

24 × 31.5 cm (9 1/2 × 12 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Panel

1732 · Silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, supplementary facing wefts and brocading wefts, and self-patterned by two-color complementary ground wefts; two fragments pieced

127.6 × 56.2 cm (50 1/4 × 22 1/8 in.); Repeat: 58.2 × 27.1 cm (22 7/8 × 10 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Saints Abdon and Sennen Bury the Remains of Christian Martyrs

1656 · Etching on tan laid paper; verso graphite sketch of Saint's head traced from recto

Image: 30.4 × 31.4 cm (12 × 12 3/8 in.); Sheet: 33.3 × 33.7 cm (13 1/8 × 13 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for God the Father

1655 · Red chalk on ivory laid paper

22.2 × 19.6 cm (8 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

De H. Hilarius, de Drieëenheid aanschouwende

1654 · chalk, paper

width: 196 cm, height: 260 cm

Rijksmuseum

Dock Scene (recto); Two Sketches of Male Figures (verso)

1650 · Red chalk, on ivory laid paper

27.5 × 41.4 cm (10 7/8 × 16 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mars and Venus (recto and verso)

1648 · Red chalk on ivory laid paper

18.1 × 24.6 cm (7 3/16 × 9 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Watering Horses near Windmill

1600 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper

13.6 × 20.8 cm (5 3/8 × 8 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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8 published of 8 catalogued · 8 with image

Art Institute Chicago
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Rijksmuseum
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De H. Hilarius, de Drieëenheid aanschouwende
1654 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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