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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Ecce Homo 1659 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
"[Carlo Cesare] Malvasia (who, as often noted, was on friendly terms with Guercino) stated that he was personally responsible through Cardinal Antonio Albergati, for the commission of an Ecce Homo and a Mourning Virgin ['Addolorata'], now presumed lost, for 'Principe Ludivisio' (i.e. Principe Niccolò Ludovisi)."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Ecce Homo 1659 drawing (compositional study) Morgan Library, New York |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Ecce Homo 1659 drawing (compositional study) Morgan Library, New York |
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| Joseph Wagner after Guercino Ecce Homo ca. 1750 engraving Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Hercules killing the Hydra (lost painting) 1659 drawing (compositional study) British Museum |
Directly below are six half-lengths of saints commissioned by Francesco Manganoni for his palace in Rimini. The suite originally consisted of nine paintings. In addition, Manganoni obtained several other late works – religious, mythological, and literary in inspiration – by Guercino or from his workshop.
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Anthony of Padua and the Infant Christ 1659-60 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Francis 1659-60 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Barbara 1659-60 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Cecilia 1659-60 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Francesco da Paolo 1659-60 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Joseph 1659-60 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Penitent Magdalene 1660 oil on canvas Fondazione Sorgente Group, Rome |
"Girolamo Panesi commissioned the [Penitent Magdalene], together with a St Sebastian, and his agents paid Guercino the equivalent of 100 scudi on 14 January 1660. While the St Sebastian has not been convincingly identified, the present work is now generally accepted to be Panesi's Penitent Magdalene, hitherto thought lost."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Cosmographer (lost painting) 1660 drawing (compositional study) Princeton University Art Museum |
"In 1660, the Sicilian nobleman Don Antonio Ruffo of Messina ordered a 'Mezza Figura del Cosmograffo' from Guercino, for which he paid 160 ducats (equal to 200 scudi) on 9 October 1660 to cover the cost of both that work and the Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist [now lost, but known from a drawing reproduced below]. Correspondence between Ruffo and Guercino indicated that the patron wished to pair the Cosmographer with Rembrandt's Aristotle, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rembrandt had painted this in 1653 and had forwarded it to Messina from Amsterdam the following year."
At the same time Guercino painted the now-lost Cosmographer for Ruffo, he painted the reduced version below for himself, and it remained among the paintings left to his heirs.
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Cosmographer ca. 1660 oil on canvas Museo Sassari Arte al Canopoleno, Sassari, Sardinia |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Holy Family with the Infant St John the Baptist (lost painting) 1660 drawing (modello) private collection |
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)