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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Judith with the Head of Holofernes 1651 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Judith with the Head of Holofernes 1651 drawing (compositional study) Royal Library, Windsor |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Return of the Prodigal Son 1651 oil on canvas Diocesan Museum, Włocławek, Poland |
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| Simon-François Ravenet the Elder after Guercino Return of the Prodigal Son 1772 engraving private collection |
"[Return of the Prodigal Son] was commissioned by the Venetian nobleman Giovanni Nani (1623-79), a picture collector and friend of fellow Venetian Marco Boschini (1602-81), painter, engraver and writer on art. . . . Between the death of Nani and an engraving [directly above] made in 1772 for John Boydell (1720-1804) of London in his series after masterpieces of painting in England, its ownership is not known. An inscription on the print gives the then-owner as Lady Leicester, who must be Catherine Fleming (d. 1786), widow of Sir Peter Leicester (1732-70), 4th Bt. Subsequently, the picture appeared at auction in 1807. Labels on the back of the stretcher show that by the mid-19th-century it belonged to the important British collector of Australian birth, George Salting (1835-1909), who sold it anonymously in 1874. After another gap, in 1943 it was consigned once again to Christie's, from which it was bought by Karol Mieczysław Radonski (1883-1951), Bishop of Włocławek, at the time resident in London, where the Polish government was then in exile."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Virgin with the Child giving a Blessing 1651 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Virgin with the Child giving a Blessing 1651 drawing (compositional study) Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Cesare Ferreri after Guercino Virgin with the Child giving a Blessing ca. 1854 etching and engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) King David as Prophet 1651 oil on canvas Lord Rothschild Collection, Spencer House, London |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) King David as Prophet 1651 drawing (compositional study) private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) King David as Prophet 1651 drawing (compositional study) University of California, Berkeley Art Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Cumaean Sibyl with a Putto 1651 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Domenico Cunego after Guercino Hellespontine Sibyl (Guercino's Cumaean Sibyl renamed) ca. 1797 engraving Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
"[The Cumaean Sibyl with a Putto, above] is one of a pair of full-lenth, upright paintings, with the King David [also above], commissioned in 1651 by Marchese Giuseppe Locatelli of Cesena. In Malvasia's account . . . it emerges that the Cumaean Sibyl was appropriated by Prince Mattias de' Medici as it was nearing completion. The Prince left instructions for Marchese Ferdinando Bali Cospi (1606-86), the Bolognese representative of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, to pay Guercino's costs and to ship the picture to him in Florence. [Guercino painted the Samian Sibyl (below) as substitute for the sibyl Locatelli had lost.]"
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Samian Sibyl with a Putto 1651 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Lot and his Daughters 1651 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Lot and his Daughters 1651 drawing (figure study) private collection |
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)