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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Jerome ca. 1639 oil on canvas private collection |
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| after Guercino St Jerome ca. 1639 offset drawing (compositional study) Royal Library, Windsor |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Suicide of Cleopatra 1639 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Suicide of Cleopatra (detail) 1639 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Gianfrancesco Mucci after Guercino Suicide of Cleopatra 1640 engraving British Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Pietà with the Virgin, Mary Magdalene, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus 1639-40 oil on canvas Musée Condé, Chantilly |
"One of the grand altarpieces of Guercino's mature period, painted during his final years at Cento, it was installed in 1640 over the third altar to the right of the Chiesa del Voto, Modena, also known as Chiesa Nuova. The picture is in poor condition, mostly due to water damage sustained while in its original location. In 1773 it was substituted by a copy painted by Antonio Verni, and the original is said to have passed into the hands of a certain Manfredi Mossati, who reputedly sold it in London. In the first half of the 19th century, it was in the collection of Leopoldo di Borbone (1790-1851), Prince of the Two Sicilies and Prince of Salerno. In 1855 it was acquired en bloc with the rest of Leopoldo's collection of paintings by Henri d'Orléans (1822-97), Duc d'Aumale, who was married to Leopoldo's daughter, Maria Carolina. It entered the Musée Condé at Chantilly soon after."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Cleopatra before Octavian Augustus 1640 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Cleopatra before Octavian Augustus 1640 drawing (compositional study) Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Cleopatra before Octavian Augustus 1640 drawing (compositional study) Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Pietro Bonato after Guercino Cleopatra before Octavian Augustus 1806 engraving British Museum |
"Described by Malvasia as 'una Cleopatra supplicante in gran quadro', it is recorded as having been painted in 1640 for Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti, then in his last year of office as Legate of Bologna. Guercino's fee of 200 ducats (265 scudi) was paid in one installment on 25 July 1640. . . . The picture appears in inventories of the Palazzo Sacchetti, Rome, and was acquired in 1748 by Pope Benedict XIV for the Pinacoteca Capitolina, along with many other pictures from the Sacchetti collection."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Anne and the Angel (Annunciation to St Anne) 1640 oil on canvas Basilica di San Nicola da Tolentino |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Bathsheba 1640 drawing (study for painting in Schloss Birlinghoven, near Cologne) private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Lucy 1640 oil on canvas Chiesa di Santa Maria Forisportam, Lucca |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Lucy 1640 drawing (compositional study) Royal Library, Windsor |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Head of Diana ca. 1640 oil on canvas private collection, Ireland |
"As Sir Denis Mahon suggested, [the Head of Diana] is probably the picture Guercino painted as a gift for the Ferrarese poet Girolamo Porti as thanks for his poem of 1636 about the Offering of Abigail, destroyed during World War II. It is unknown when Porti received the present little picture, but when he did he penned further verses in gratitude, admiring the picture's luminosity."
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)