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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St John the Baptist in the Desert 1650 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
"Cited by [Carlo Cesare] Malvasia under 1650, [St John the Baptist in the Desert] was executed for the Ridolfini Chapel in the church of the Rosario at Cento. [Nineteenth-century historian Gaetano Atti reported that in 1796, when French invaders were stripping paintings from churches in Cento, a substantial bribe was paid to induce them to spare this one.] In 1839 it was transferred to the Pinacoteca Civica and replaced by a copy that the Comune commissioned from local painter and restorer Antonio Guandalini at a cost of 100 scudi; this remains on the altar."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Penitent St Peter 1650 oil on canvas Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) David with the Head of Goliath 1650 oil on canvas (trial version) National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) David with the Head of Goliath 1650 drawing (compositional study) Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) David with the Head of Goliath 1650 drawing (compositional study) Royal Library, Windsor |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) David with the Head of Goliath 1650 oil on canvas (finished version) private collection |
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| Giovita Garavaglia after Guercino David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1810-35 engraving British Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Mystic Marriage of St Catherine 1650 oil on canvas Galleria Estense, Modena |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (detail) 1650 oil on canvas Galleria Estense, Modena |
"A payment of 125 ducats [for the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine] was received from Cesare Cavazza, keeper of the ducal wardrobe [in Modena] on 25 October 1650. It was later in the collection of Conte Paolo Toschi, whose collection was sold in 1681 to Principe Cesare Ignazio d'Este (1653-1713). It was requisitioned from the ducal galleries in Modena by the French in 1796, exhibited at the Louvre two years later, but returned to Modena in 1815."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Vision of St Jerome begun in 1650, completed in 1655 oil on canvas Église Saint Thomas d'Aquin, Paris |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Vision of St Jerome ca. 1650 drawing (compositional study) Royal Library, Windsor |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Vision of St Jerome ca. 1650 drawing (compositional study) Royal Library, Windsor |
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| by or after Guercino St Jerome in Ecstasy ca. 1650 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| E. Robillard after Guercino Vision of St Jerome ca. 1845-47 lithograph British Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Jacob lamenting over Joseph's Bloody Coat ca. 1650 oil on canvas Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire |
"According to records at Burghley, Cecil Brownlow (1725-93), 9th Earl of Exeter, acquired [Jacob lamenting over Joseph's Bloody Coat] from the Palazzo Barberini, Rome. The Barberini inventories indeed record a painting of this subject, but it was smaller and of the head and shoulders of Jacob. . . . The Burghley painting seems not to have belonged to the Barberini and, furthermore, is not documented in either Malvasia or the painter's account book."
Рquoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonn̩ by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)