Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection
Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection
Baroque: Masterpieces from 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
Lot Details
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Baroque: Masterpieces 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 York 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, pp. 223, 409, cat. no. 135.IV, reproduced.
Engraved
Joseph van Loss, circa 1730.