Baroque: Master🔯pieces fro🎐m the Fisch Davidson Collection
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
Jacob holding Joseph's bloodied coat
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January 26, 03:17 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
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Baroque: Maste𒅌rpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
Cento 1591 - 1666 Bologna
Jacob holding Joseph's bloodied coat
oil on canvas
canvas: 30¼ by 25⅛ in.; 76.8 by 63.8 cm.
framed: 39⅜ by 34⅛ in.; 100.0 by 86.7 cm.
Probably thence by descent to his son, Urbano Barberini, Prince of Palestrina (1664-1722), Rome, or by inheritance to his brother, Cardinal Carlo Barberini (1630-1704), Rome;
Simon Lenfant (1616-1693), Aix-en-Provence;
Thence by descent to his son, Louis Lenfant (d. 1734), Aix-en-Provence;
Thence by descent to his son, Bruno-Vincent-Louis Lenfant (1717-1767), Aix-en-Provence;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 12 January 1995, lot 39;
Where acquired by the present collectors.
Probably F. Vivan, "Guercino Seen from the Archivio Barberini," in Burlington Magazine 113, no. 814 (January 1971), p. 23 (Barberini painting ⛎incorrectly identified as the version now in the Bob Jones University Collection);
Probably M. Aronberg Lavin, Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art, New Yoꦡrk 1975, pp. 397, 694, VII., inv. 86.71 🐓(Barberini painting incorrectly identified as the version now in the Bob Jones University Collection);
N. Turner, The Paintings of Guercino: Revised and Expanded Catalogue Raisonné, Rome 2017, pꦫp. 223, 409,♊ cat. no. 135.IV, reproduced.
Engraved
Joseph van Loss, circa 1730.