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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 1, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Old Masters | 17 | $****** - ****** | Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness |
paintings
177.7 x 231.8 cm (69.96 x 91.26 in)
oil on canvas
The artist's collection, Casa Gennari, Bologna, and by inheritance to his nephew
Benedetto Gennari (1633-1715), Casa Gennari, Bologna.
John Cust, 2nd Baron Brownlow (d. 1853); Christie's, London, 17 April 1812, lot 15 (50 gns. to Phillips).
Barons Farnham, County Cavan, Ireland, by whom probably acquired in the early 19th century, and by descent to
Barry Maxwell, 12th Baron Farnham (1931-2001); Christie's, London, 26 November 1971, lot 34.
Private collection, England, 1972.
David B. and Edward C. Goodstein, Los Angeles, by 1980 until at least 1983.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 February 1987, lot 3, where acquired by the present owner.
Belfast, Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, Pictures from Ulster Houses, 10 May-15 July 1961, no. 155.
Bologna, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Il Guercino, 1 September-18 November 1968, no. 95.
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, 1972-1978 (on loan).
Chestnut Hill, MA, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image, 1 February-24 May 1999.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Guercino: Poesia e Sentimento nella Pittura del '600, 27 September 2003-19 January 2004, no. 93.
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, October 2006-July 2010 (on loan).
C.C. Malvasia, Felsina pittrice: vite de pittori bolognesi, Bologna, 1678, II, pp. 379, 384.
C.C. Malvasia, Felsina pittrice: vite de pittori bolognesi, 2nd edition, Bologna, 1842, II, pp. 269, 273.
MS. Inventory, Casa Gennari, 31 October 1719 (relevant sections cited below in D. Mahon, 1968, p. 204).
D. Posner, 'The Guercino Exhibition at Bologna,' The Burlington Magazine, CX, 1968, p. 599.
E.C. Goodstein, The David D. Goodstein and Edward C. Goodstein Collection, Menio Park, CA, 1983, no. 12, illustrated.
L. Salerno, I dipinti del Guercino, Rome, 1988, p. 361, no. 292, pl. 30.
D. Mahon and N. Turner, The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, Cambridge, 1989, p. 96.
S. Loire, Le Guerchin en France, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1990, p. 83, under no. 18.
D. Mahon, et. al., Giovanni Francesco Barbieri: Il Guercino 1591-1666, exhibition catalogue, Bologna, 1991, p. 364, under nos. 140-141.
D. Stone, Guercino: catalogo completo dei dipinti, Florence, 1991, p. 288, no. 280, illustrated.
C. van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Guercino (1591-1666): Drawings from Dutch Collections, exhibition catalogue, Haarlem, 1990, p. 170, under no. 75.
E. Negro and N. Roio, L'eredità del Guercino, Modena, 2008, p. 16, no. 9, illustrated.
C. Giardini, 'Osservazioni, riferimenti e commenti al San Giovanni Battista alla Fonte dipinto dal Guercino per Fanon el 1661 e 'enlevé le 3 ventôse, 5eme année de la République [20 Febbraio 1797]', in Guercino a Fano, tra presenza e assenza, exhibition catalogue, Fano, 2011, pp. 84-86, illustrated.
N. Turner, The Paintings of Guercino: A Revised and Expanded Catalogue raisonné, Rome, 2017, pp. 218-219, no. 414.
oil on canvas
69 7/8 x 91 ¼ in. (177.7 x 231.8 cm.)
