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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Flagellation 1657 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
"[The Flagellation] was ordered by the Cardinal Legate of Ferrara, Cardinal Lorenzo Imperiali, as a gift to Pope Alexander VII Chigi. . . . Guercino's Flagellation featured in the early inventories of pictures belonging to Agostino Chigi [nephew of the Pope], and was to remain in the Palazzo Chigi, Piazza Colonna, until 1918, when it was ceded to the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica [at Palazzo Barberini]."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Sleeping Endymion 1657-58 oil on canvas Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Francesco Ravano after Guercino Sleeping Endymion ca. 1841-46 etching and engraving British Museum |
"[The painting directly below] can be identified with the half-length Diana, which was paired with a half-length Endymion [above], both to be sent to Rome for the 'Signori Carandini'. . . . The pair of pictures is mentioned in the 1664 estate inventory of Conte Fabio Carandini (1578-1664)."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Diana 1658 oil on canvas Fondazione Sorgente Group, Rome |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Diana 1658 drawing (hand study - Diana) Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Diana 1658 oil on canvas Gabriele Pantucci Collection, London |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Portrait of Fra Bonaventura Bisi (artist, and friend of Guercino) 1658 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Samson presenting the Honeycomb to his Parents 1657 oil on canvas Fine Arts Museums of San Francesco (Palace of the Legion of Honor) |
"The flamboyant Pierce Walsh Porter (d. 1809), an avid art collector who, in the last years of his life, was the artistic adviser to the Prince [Regent], must have acquired [Samson presenting the Honeycomb to his Parents] c. 1800. In the catalogue entry for it in his posthumous sale in 1810, it is said to have come from the Aldobrandini collection in Rome."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Anthony of Padua 1658 oil on canvas Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina |
"[St Anthony of Padua] is evidently the fragment of the lower half of an altarpiece that must have had a Virgin and Child above. Conservation work carried out c. 1972 confirmed this, when the toes and part of the red drapery of the Virgin were exposed in an area, since painted over, behind and around the saint's right hand."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Palatias 1658 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Civica, Ancona |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Palatias 1658 drawing (figure study - Angel) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Cecilia 1658 oil on canvas Fondazione Sorgente Group, Rome |
"[Carlo Cesare] Malvasia mentioned a set of four canvases ordered by Girolamo Panesi among Guercino commissions for 1658: 'Fece un'Assunta, Una S. Cecilia, Una S. Veronica, ed un Davide al sig. Pavese Roma'. All four were paid for on 29 August of that year, at a total cost of 140 ducats (equal to 175 scudi). So far, only two are known, the [St Cecilia, above] and the King David in Prayer [below]."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) King David in Prayer 1658 oil on canvas (cut down) private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Lucy 1658 oil on canvas Museo Diocesano, Recannati |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Rest on the Return from the Flight into Egypt (study for painting in private collection) 1657 drawing (drapery study - Virgin) Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)