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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael 1657 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael 1657 drawing (compositional study) Royal Library, Windsor |
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| Robert Strange after Guercino Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael 1767 etching and engraving Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Rinaldo and Armida 1657 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Rinaldo and Armida 1657 drawing (compositional study) British Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Rinaldo and Armida 1657 drawing (compositional study) Christ Church, University of Oxford |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Rinaldo and Armida 1657 drawing (compositional study) Fondation Custodia, Paris |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Rinaldo and Armida 1657 drawing (compositional study) Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Assumption of the Virgin 1657 oil on canvas Galleria Estense, Modena |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Assumption of the Virgin 1657 drawing (figure study) Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) David with the Head of Goliath 1657 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
"In 1657 Massimiliano III Stampa (1613; reg. 1621-59), 5th Marchese di Soncino, ordered four pictures from Guercino, recorded by [Carlo Cesare] Malvasia as follows: 'He made for Sig. Marchese Tonsini four paintings: Abraham expelling Hagar, Rinaldo and Armida, an Assumption of the Virgin, and a David with the head of Goliath' [all four above]. The Marchese spent much of his earlier life in exile from Milan. While still a young man, he had murdered several of his subjects, and, to escape justice, fled to Naples. He was condemned to death, in absentia. For years he sought pardon, but to no avail. Eventually, he had the idea of raising a mercenary army in Naples, marching it to Lombardy, and recapturing the city of Tortona from the French, which he succeeded in doing in 1643. All of this was to gain the favour of King Philip IV of Spain, the most powerful person in Milan: the stratagem worked and, in 1646, the death penalty was lifted. . . . Through the intervention of Philip IV, Massimiliano III at last regained control of his estates from his brother some 10 years later."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) David with his Sling (derived from David with the Head of Goliath) after 1657 oil on canvas private collection, Ireland |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Infant Christ Blessing (Salvator Mundi) 1657 oil on canvas Corsham Court, Wiltshire |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Infant Christ Blessing (Salvator Mundi) 1657 drawing (compositional study) Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)