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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Vision of St Jerome ca. 1619-20 oil on canvas (trial version) private collection |
"[This version of the Vision of St Jerome] was formerly in the collection of William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton, until the Hamilton Palace sale of 1882, when it was bought by 'Knowles', and subsequently in that of Mr and Mrs Fielding Lewis Marshall of Chicago, at whose sale in 1974 it was described as 'a sketch for one of Guercino's best paintings'. Executed on canvas in a thinly painted, rapid, bozzetto-like style, with less nuanced contrasts between light and dark, it seems to be another example of a trial version on canvas for a finished version (or versions) of the composition on copper."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Vision of St Jerome ca. 1619-20 drawing (compositional study) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Vision of St Jerome ca. 1619-20 oil on copper (finished version) Musée du Louvre |
"[This version of the Vision of St Jerome] was first recorded in 1623 . . . in the inventory of pictures belonging to Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi. With the cardinal's death in 1632 and the dispersal of his collection, it must shortly thereafter have made its way to France, where . . . it belonged briefly to the banker Everhard Jabach and then, in 1662, to Louis-Henri Loménie de Brienne (1635-98). It was sold by Abbé de Saint-Léger, about whom nothing is known, to Louis XIV via the intermediary Charles-Antoine Hérault (1644-1718) in 1685 for 671 livres."
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| Giovanni Battista Pasqualini after Guercino Vision of St Jerome ca. 1621 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Bernard-Antoine Nicollet after Guercino Vision of St Jerome ca. 1800-1807 etching and engraving British Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Vision of St Jerome ca. 1619-20 oil on copper Pushkin State Museum, Moscow |
"In the 18th century, according to [Marcello] Oretti, this [version of the Vision of St Jerome] was in the Palazzo Sampieri in the Strada Maggiore, Bologna, a collection in which it was also recorded by [Carlo Cesare] Malvasia, who confused it with the copper of the same subject of c. 1619-20 now in the Louvre. In 1811 Napoleon's stepson, Prince Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824), then Viceroy of Italy and later 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg, acquired it with the paintings in the Galleria Sampieri, some of which were destined for the French State, some for himself. The painting was taken to Russia following the marriage of Prince Eugène's younger son Maximilian de Beauharnais (1817-52) to Maria Nikolaevna (1819-76), the art-loving daughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (1796-1855). The painting later formed part of the collection of the Rumyantsev Museum, Moscow's first public museum, whose holdings of Old Masters were transferred to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts after 1924."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Vision of St Jerome ca. 1619-20 drawing (compositional study) Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
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| Nepomuk Muxel after Guercino Vision of St Jerome ca. 1825-50 etching British Museum |
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| anonymous copyist after Guercino Jael and Sisera (lost painting known from copies and drawings) ca. 1619-20 oil on canvas (damaged in World War II) Museo di Stato, San Marino |
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| anonymous copyist after Guercino Jael and Sisera (lost painting known from copies and drawings) ca. 1619-20 oil on canvas (monochrome photo) private collection |
"The early sources do not mention a picture of this subject, but in the 18th century there was one attributed to Guercino in the Parisetti collection in Reggio Emilia. Autograph drawings [several below] imply a commission of c. 1619-20. [Denis] Mahon plausibly suggested that the original, now known only from copies, might have been executed for Guercino's main patron of the period, Cardinal Serra."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Jael and Sisera ca. 1619-20 drawing (compositional study) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Jael and Sisera ca. 1619-20 drawing (compositional study) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Jael and Sisera ca. 1619-20 drawing (compositional study) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Jael and Sisera ca. 1619-20 drawing (compositional study) Fondation Custodia, Paris |
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| Giovanni Battista Coriolano after Guercino Jael and Sisera ca. 1620 woodcut (adaptation) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)