National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Cardinal Francesco Cennini
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Provenance

Dr. J. Seymour Maynard, London; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 29 January 1954, no. 58);[1] (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London); sold that same day to (David M. Koetser Gallery, New York, London, and Zurich);[2] purchased 1955 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Charles Beddington of the Old Master Picture Department at Christie's checked their records and found no earlier provenance for the painting; he suggested that, as Maynard was a frequenter of the London sale rooms, he may have purchased the picture at Sotheby's (letter of 2 January 1991 in NGA curatorial files). No reference to the painting appears in sales indexes prior to 1954.

[2] Stockbooks, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, no. 1185

[3] According to Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XVI-XVIII Century, London, 1973: 78, and Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:246.

Exhibition History

1986
The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986-1987, no. 166, color repro.
1991
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Il Guercino 1591-1666, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 1991-1992, no. 37, color repro.
1991
Il Guercino e la Bottega, Pinacoteca Civica e Chiesa del Rosario, Cento, Italy, 1991, no. 64, color repro. (cat. titled Il Guercino, 1591-1666: Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Bologna).
1992
Guercino: Master Painter of the Baroque, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 29, color repro.

Bibliography

1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 65.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 57, repro.
1968
Mahon, Denis. Il Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666: Catalogo critico dei dipinti). Exh. cat. Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1968: 156.
1968
Zucker, Mark J. "Guercinio's Portrait of Cardinal Francesco Cennini." Report and Studies in the History of Art I (1967-68): 113-114, repro.
1973
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 78, fig. 141.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 168, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:245-246, II:pl. 167.
1981
Mahon, Denis. "Guercino as a Portraitist and His 'Pope Gregory XV.'" Apollo 113 (1981): 232, 234, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 230, no. 294, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 195, repro.
1988
Salerno, Luigi. I dipinti del Guercino. Rome, 1988: 173; 190, no. 108.
1988
Southorn, Janet. Power and Display in the Seventeenth Century. The Arts and Their Patrons in Modena and Ferrara. Cambridge, 1988: 115, pl. 84.
1996
De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 158-162, color repro. 161.

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