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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 19, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Old Masters Part I | 26 | $****** - ****** | Saint Agnes |
paintings
119.4 x 94 cm (47 x 37 in)
oil on canvas
Commissioned by Alberto Provenzali of Cento as a gift for Cardinal Girolamo Colonna, Archbishop of Bologna (1604-1666), and by descent to the Principi Colonna, Palazzo Colonna, Rome, where recorded in inventories of 1648, 1667, 1714, 1730 and in the 1783 Catalogo (see below, under literature).
John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury (1791-1852), Alton Towers, where hung in the Talbot Gallery, and by inheritance to his cousin
Bertram Arthur, 17th Earl of Shrewsbury (1832-1856); (†) Christie's, on the premises, 8 [=3rd day] July 1857, lot 228, 'very elegant' (46 gns. to Collette, apparently for 'Niew' [Niewenhuys]).
Richard Corbett, Adderley Hall, Shropshire.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1976, lot 37.
with Trafalgar Galleries, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 December 2006, lot 53, where acquired for the present owner.
London, National Gallery, Guercino in Britain, Paintings from British Collections, June-July 1991, no. 21 (entry by M. Helston and T. Henry).
Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, Il Guercino, 6 September-10 November 1991, no. 80.
Milan, Palazzo Reale; and Rome, Stazione Termini, Ala Mazzoniana, Guercino. Poesia e Sentimento nella pittura del '600, September 2003-January 2004; and February-September 2004.
C.C. Malvasia, Felsina Pittrice, Vite de' Pittori Bolognesi, Bologna, 1678, II, p. 371 (1841 edition, II, p. 264).
Catalogo dei Quadri, e Pitture esistenti nel Palazzo dell'eccellentissima Casa Colonna in Roma, Rome, 1783, p. 103, no. 789.
J.A. Calvi, Notizie della vita e delle opere del Cavalier Giovan Francesco Barbieri detto il Guercino da Cento, Bologna, 1808, pp. 80-1 (1841 edition, II, pp. 315-6).
L. Salerno, I dipinti del Guercino, Rome, 1988, p. 251, no. 163.
D.M. Stone, Guercino: catalogo completo dei dipinti, Florence, 1991, p. 165, fig. 146.
M. Helston and T. Henry, in The Burlington Magazine, CXXXIII, no. 1060, July 1991, appendix, pp. 46-7.
B. Ghelfi, Il libro dei conti del Guercino, 1629-1666, Venice, 1997, pp. 86 and 88, nos. 145 and 155.
M.C. Paoluzzi, La collezione Colonna nell'allestimento settecentesco: La Galleria neglia acquarelli di Salvatore Colonnelli Sciarra, Rome, 2013, pp. 97-9.
N. Turner, The Paintings of Guercino: A Revised and Expanded Catalogue raisonné, Rome, 2017, pp. 517-18. no. 226.
oil on canvas
47 x 37 in. (119.2 x 94 cm.)
