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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Landscape with a Concert ca. 1617 oil on copper Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Landscape with Tobias and the Angel ca. 1617 oil on copper Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Landscape with Travellers Decorations of the Casa Benotti-Chiarelli, Cento ca. 1617 fresco (in situ) Casa Benotti-Chiarelli, Cento |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Landscape with View of a City Decorations of the Casa Benotti-Chiarelli, Cento ca. 1617 fresco (in situ) Casa Benotti-Chiarelli, Cento |
"[Gaetano] Atti mentioned this now almost forgotten ground-floor room in a townhouse in Cento, decorated by the young Guercino. At the top of the walls a frescoed frieze consists of rectangular landscape compartments alternating with square panels, each with an allegorical figure painted in grisaille. . . . The rectangular country scenes recall the Casa Pannini decorations, though they seem more naturalistically interpreted."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Virgin and Child with Sts Catherine, Francis, and Louis of France ca. 1617 oil on copper private collection |
"This newly discovered picture is . . . a monumental altarpiece design, executed on a miniature scale, with four whole-length figures in varied costumes and the nude Christ Child. The raised throne capped by a baldachin on which the Virgin is seated recalls similar furnishing in Ferrarese 'sacra conversazioni' paintings from c. 1600."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Francis preaching to the Birds ca. 1617 oil on copper private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Francis holding a Crucifix ca. 1617-18 oil on canvas Francesco Lauro Collection, Naples |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Vision of St Francis (lost or unexecuted painting) ca. 1617 drawing Grimaldi Fava Collection, Cento |
"The painted realization of a Vision of St Francis is either lost or was never made, perhaps because the composition was ultimately transformed into a Vision of St. Clare [directly below]. Five surviving studies possibly connected with it, however, are evidence of the care with which such a composition was explored – a likely indication of an eminent patron, even if the end result remains unclear. The intended painting may not have been an altarpiece, but rather a small devotional work in which the same sense of grandeur was achieved within a narrow confine."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Vision of St Clare ca. 1617-18 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Francesco Bartolozzi after Guercino Vision of St Clare 1764 etching after a lost Guercino study drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Willem Hendrik Franquinet after Francesco Bartolozzi after Guercino Vision of St Clare ca. 1820 lithograph private collection |
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| Mary Ann Gabell after Guercino Vision of St Clare 1815 etching (central figure group) British Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Sts Francis of Assisi and Louis of France in Adoration with Angels 1618 oil on canvas (inset Madonna a modern substitution) Chiesa di San Francesco, Brisighella |
"This rare example of an inscribed and dated altarpiece . . . was discovered in the church of S. Francesco in the small town of Brisighella, a few kilometres southwest of Faenza. Located over the altar of the chapel of the Naldi family, the painting, as the inscription makes clear, was commissioned in memory of a Cavaliere Ludovico Naldi by his sons. . . . The two saints – the name saints of the eldest son and the father to whom it is dedicated – are shown kneeling beneath a rectangular opening, designed to accommodate a (now lost) image of the Virgin and Child. The Naldi family had apparently been soldiers for generations, some of them condottieri in the service of the French, which may explain the choice of St Louis, who was the patron saint of French kings."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Sts Francis of Assisi and Louis of France in Adoration with Angels 1618 drawing (compositional study) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Sts Francis of Assisi and Louis of France in Adoration with Angels 1618 drawing (compositional study) Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Sts Francis of Assisi and Louis of France in Adoration with Angels 1618 drawing (compositional studies) British Museum |
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)