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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Christ and the Samaritan Woman 1640 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
In 1640 Guercino is believed to have painted the above version of Christ and the Samaritan Woman for Gioseffo Baroni of Lucca. Then in 1641 an autograph duplicate [detail below] is thought to have been completed for 'Sig.ʳᵉ Abbate Bentivoglio'.
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Christ and the Samaritan Woman (detail) 1640-41 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| anonymous printmaker after Guercino Christ and the Samaritan Woman ca. 1812 etching (for Galerie Lucien Bonaparte) British Museum |
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| Jean-Baptiste Meunier after Guercino Christ and the Samaritan Woman 1854 etching and engraving British Museum |
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| workshop adaptation after Guercino Circe after 1640 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
The Louvre painting of Circe – a variation on the figure of the Samaritan Woman – which "in its time had a certain succès d'estime," is now generally credited to an anonymous follower of Guercino.
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| Mauro Gandolfi after Guercino workshop Circe (renamed Sibyl) ca. 1800-1810 engraving Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| by or after Guercino Self Portrait ca. 1640 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
"Long accepted as an autograph self-portrait, [the version above] took a tumble on the discovery of the livelier painted version [below]. The Louvre painting, which extends the composition on all sides, is now generally considered a studio replica."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Self Portrait ca. 1640 oil on canvas Schoeppler Collection, London |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Jerome ca. 1640-41 oil on canvas (trial version) private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Jerome ca. 1640-41 drawing (compositional study) Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Jerome ca. 1640-41 oil on canvas (finished version) private collection |
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| Gianfrancesco Mucci after Guercino St Jerome ca. 1641 etching British Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Romuald 1640-41 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Comunale di Ravenna |
"One of a remarkable series of altarpieces that Guercino executed in the 1640s, the St Romuald was painted for the Benedictine fathers of S. Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna. St Romuald (c. AD 951-c. 1025/7) was a native of Ravenna, and it was there that he entered the Benedictine monastery of S. Apollinare, where he became abbot for a short time. Around 1012, he founded his own reformed offshoot of the Benedictine Order, known as the Camaldolese, which he established at the Sacred Hermitage of Camaldoli in the Tuscan Hills. . . . St. Romuald appears here as a hermit, but dressed in the official vestments of his order."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Romuald 1640-41 drawing (head study) British Museum |
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| Benoît Farjat after Guercino St Romuald ca. 1700 engraving Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio |
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)