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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 9, 2011 | Sotheby's | New York | Old Master Paintings | 19 | $****** - ****** | Saint Luke |
paintings
62.7 x 51.2 cm (24.69 x 20.16 in)
oil on canvas
inscribed on the reverse of the original canvas: del Guercino da Cento donato all'Em. mo Sachetti l'anno 1631 dal d. to Pittore ("by Guercino of Cento, given to His Eminence Sachetti in the year 1631 by the said painter")
Probably commissioned from the artist by Cardinal Bernardino Spada, Bologna, 1631
Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti, Ferrara
1631
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 8 December 1989, lot 127
There purchased by the present owner.
MS Libro dei conti of Cardinal Bernardino Spada; Rome, Archivio di Stato, Fondo Spada, vol. 820, fol. 613, to the left (entry from 1 July 1631); cited in M. T. Dirani, "Mecenati, pittori e mercanti dell'arte nel Seicento," Ricerche di storia dell'arte 16 (1982), p. 88 (320 lire misread as 320 scudi);; MS Libro dei conti of Guercino; Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio (entry from 8 July 1631); published in J.A. Calvi, Notizie della vita e delle opere del...Guercino, Bologna, 1808, p. 63, and in Malvasia, infra, 1841, II, p. 309;; C. C. Malvasia, Felsina Pittrice, Bologna 1678, II, p. 368; Bologna 1841, II, p. 262;; D. Mahon, Il Guercino: Catalogo critico dei dipinti, exhibition catalogue, Bologna 1968, p. 155, under no. 65;; L. Salerno, I dipinti del Guercino, Rome 1988, pp. 217, 226, under nos. 123 bis, 132;; S. Loire, "Etudes récentes sur Le Guerchin", in Storia dell'Arte, no. 67, 1989, p. 275;; D. Stone, Guercino: Catalogo completo, Florence 1991, pp. 146-7, cat. no. 125, reproduced;; B. Ghelfi (ed.), Il libro dei conti del Guercino, Bologna 1997, p. 61, no. 35.;
