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Artist: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Italian, 1591–1666
Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness
1652
Oil on canvas
unframed: 177.7 × 231.8 cm (69 15/16 × 91 1/4 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund
2019.57.1
Status:
On view
Culture:
Italian, Bologna
Period:
17th century
Classification:
Paintings
Provenance:
The artist’s collection, Casa Gennari, Bologna
By inheritance to his nephew, Benedetto Gennari, Bologna, and by descent until after 1719
John Cust, 2nd Baron Brownlow, sold Christie’s London, 17 April 1812, lot 15
Barons Farnham, County Cavan, Ireland
By descent to Barry Maxwell, 12th Baron Farnham, sold Christie’s, London, 26 November 1971, lot 34 [bought by Hugh Leggatt]
Private Collection, England, from 1972
David B. and Edward C. Goodstein, Los Angeles, by 1980 until after 1983
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 27 February 1987, lot 3
Richard L. Feigen, New York
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
