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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Feast of Absalom 1628 oil on canvas private collection |
"Guercino painted this subject for a Bolognese patron, Lorenzo Fioravanti, in 1628, according to [Carlo Cesare] Malvasia. Marcello Oretti recorded it in the Casa Fioravanti in Strada Maggiore, Bologna. . . . How the picture passed from the Fioravanti family to Ferdinand Philippe Marie d'Orléans, Duc d'Alençon (1844-1910), has yet to be ascertained, but it is tempting to surmise that it may have done so through his grandfather King Louis-Philippe (reg. 1830-48). It subsequently passed into the possession of Louise d'Orléans, Princess of Bavaria (1869-1952), the daughter of the Duc d'Alençon, and afterwards to her son HRH Prince Joseph-Clemens of Bavaria (1902-90), from whom it passed to the present owner."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Feast of Absalom 1628 drawing (compositional study) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Feast of Absalom 1628 drawing (compositional study) Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Feast of Absalom 1628 drawing (compositional study) Royal Library, Windsor |
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| Francesco Bartolozzi after Guercino Feast of Absalom 1764 etching after Guercino drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Feast of Absalom 1628 drawing (compositional study) Royal Library, Windsor |
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| Francesco Bartolozzi after Guercino Feast of Absalom 1764 etching after Guercino drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Feast of Absalom 1628 drawing (figure study) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Feast of Absalom 1628 drawing (figure study) Musée du Louvre |
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| anonymous copyist after Guercino Feast of Absalom after 1628 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Comunale, Imola |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Annunciation 1628-29 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida |
"These two canvases once decorated spandrels to either side of the arch separating the nave from the now-demolished presbytery of the Oratorio dell'Invenzione della Santa Croce in Reggio Emilia. . . . After the suppression of the oratory in 1783, the painting was sold and entered the collection of Sir Richard Worsley (1751-1805), 7th Bt, of Appuldurcombe House, Isle of Wight, who was in Italy at the time. His estate was inherited by his niece, Henrietta Anna Maria Charlotte Simpson (1788-1813), who in 1806 married the Hon. Charles Anderson-Pelham (1781-1846), later 1st Earl of Yarborough, who continued to live at Appuldurcombe House. It was acquired at the Yarborough auction in 1929 by John Ringling (1866-1936), who bequeathed it to the museum."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Annunciation 1628-29 drawing (drapery study - Angel) Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Giovanni Battista Pasqualini after Guercino The Annunciation 1629 engraving (adapted to vertical format) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| anonymous copyist after Guercino St Jerome in the Wilderness after 1628-29 oil on canvas (copy of lost painting) private collection |
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)