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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Thomas Aquinas 1662-63 oil on canvas Basilica di San Domenico, Bologna |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Thomas Aquinas 1662-63 drawing (compositional study - Angel) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Night 1663 oil on canvas private collection |
"According to the account book, on 19 December 1663, a Sig. Conte Gabrielli paid 10 doubloons (equal to 37 scudi, 10 lire) for a 'Notte', which from its price would have been a half length. As Francesco Petrucci has pointed out, the picture was in the Chigi collection by the end of the 17th century, as it features in an inventory of the pictures in the palace at SS. Apostoli in 1692."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Blessed Marcolino Amanni of Forlì before the Virgin and Child 1663 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
"[Carlo Cesare] Malvasia recorded this painting – long thought lost, but rediscovered, rolled up in the depots of the Brera, by Prisco Bagni – under the year 1664. The payments in the account book, by contrast, suggest that it was finished the previous year. . . . From [Marcello] Oretti's 1778 manuscript, we know that the painting was originally located in the church of S. Domenico at Forlì. It came to the Brera in 1809 with the suppression of the monasteries. From 1815 to 1850 it was exhibited at the Accademia, Milan, then, from 1850 to 1921 it was on deposit in the parish church of Casatenovo (Como), before being returned to the Brera (where it was forgotten in the depots)."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Blessed Marcolino Amanni of Forlì before the Virgin and Child 1663 drawing (head study) private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Rinaldo restraining Armida 1664 oil on canvas private collection |
Both Rinaldo restraining Armida (above) and Venus with a Putto (below) were commissioned in 1664 by Conte Uguccione Pepoli for his palace in the Via Galliera, Bologna.
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Venus with a Putto 1664 oil on canvas private collection |
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| follower of Guercino Venus with a Putto 1664 or later study drawing Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Christian Charity ca. 1664 oil on canvas Musées d'art et d'histoire de Genève |
In the absence of conclusive documentary evidence, both Christian Charity (above) and St Agnes (below) are tentatively thought to have numbered among the paintings left behind in the studio at the time of Guercino's death in 1666.
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Agnes ca. 1664 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Teresa receiving the Habit (lost painting) 1665 oil on canvas formerly Chiesa di San Gregorio a Messina |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Teresa receiving the Habit (lost painting) 1665 drawing (compositional study - Virgin and Child) private collection |
"[St Teresa receiving the Habit], formerly in the church of S. Gregorio, Messina, was destroyed in the earthquake of 1908. According to Malvasia, who listed it under 1665, it was painted for a nun in Messina, a niece of Guercino's regular late client Antonio Ruffo. The payment, made by Ruffo himself, amounted to 400 ducats (equal to 2,000 lire) and was recorded on 23 September 1665. . . . [Antonio Ruffo also sponsored David with the Head of Goliath (below)] "on behalf of Giacomo Ruffo, Don Antonio's nephew."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) David with the Head of Goliath 1665 oil on canvas Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica |
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| by or after Guercino Self Portrait ca. 1664 oil on canvas Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)