Saint Barbara

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Artist Francesco Guarino da Solofra(Italian, 1611–1654)Italian, 1611–1654

CultureItalian

Titles

Saint Barbara

Datec. 1635

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 47 3/4 × 37 1/2 in. (121.3 × 95.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Anne Morey

Object number2022.225

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

207 Powell Gallery

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceCharles Alfred Worsley Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough; [Durlacher Brothers, 1930, London]; Kirk Askew, since 1930's, New York; Constance Atwood Askew by inheritance, since 1970's, New York; Pamela Askew by inheritance, since 1980's, Poughkeepsie, New York; Anne Morey by inheritance, 2006, College Station, TX; given to MFAH, 2022.
Exhibition HistoryThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. On-loan and exhibited, 1946.

"Italian Baroque Painting, 17th and 18th centuries," California Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1941.

"Italian Paintings and Drawings of the Seventeenth Century," Durlacher Brothers Gallery, New York, 1932.

"Exhibition of Italian Painting of the Sei- and Settecento," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 1930.
Published References Francesco Guarino da Solofra: Nella pittura napoletana del Seicento (1611-1651), 2nd edition. Riccardo Lattuada (Naples: Paparo Edizioni, 2013), 174-176. "Imitando il bel girar degli occhi usata da quell'ammirabil maestro": le "sante vergini" di Cavallino e Guarino." Gianluca Forgione. Francesco Guarini: nuovi contributi, vol. I. Mario Alberto Pavone, ed. (Naples: Paparo Edizioni, 2012): 88, 99. Francesco Guarino da Solofra: Nella pittura napoletana del Seicento (1611-1651). Riccardo Lattuada (Naples: Paparo Edizioni, 2000), 174-176. "Opere di Francesco Guarino a Campobasso." Riccardo Lattuada. Prospettiva (n. 31, October 1982), 50-69. "Unbekanntes von Francesco Guarino: Beitrage zur Neapolitanischen Seicentomalerei." Eric Schleier. Pantheon (XXXIII, Heft. I, 1975), 27-33, 54. The Baroque Painters of Italy. Arthur McComb (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1934), 49, 126. "Italian Baroque Art at Hartford" (review). Russell Hitchcock Jr. International Studio (April, 1930), 22. "Sei- and Settecento Art Shown at Wadsworth Atheneum." Arthur McComb. Art News (XXVIII, n. 18, February 1930), 4-5. Treasures of Art in Great Britain: being an account of the chief collection of painting, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., etc. etc., Supplement. Gustav Friedrich Waagen (London: John Murray, 1854). Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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Catalogue raisonnéLattuada, Riccardo. Francesco Guarino da Solofra: nella pittura napoletana del Seicento (1611-1651). Naples: Paparo Edizioni, 2000, pp. 174-176.

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