GUIDO RENI, Portrait of Cardinal Camillo Borghese

Oil on canvas

158.4 x 116.2 cm;
62 3/8 x 45 3/4 in.

Provenance

Castello di Torre Ratti?;
Marchese Montebruno, Genoa?;
Swedish Art Market;
Colen Art, Lugano, before 1985;
Matthiesen Gallery by 1993;
M.F. Collection.

Exhibitions

London, Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd., Around 1610: The Onset of the Baroque, 1985, no. 10 (where identified as Scipione Borghese), on loan.

Literature

C.C. Malvasia, La Felsina Pittrice, Bologna 1678, G. Zanotti (ed), Bologna 1841, II, p. 47. Serie degli uomini i piu illustri nella pittura, scultura, e architettura con i loro elogi, e ritratti incisi in rame cominciando dalla sua prima restaurazione fino ai tempi

presenti...Firenze 1769–76;

C.C. Malvasia, Life of Guido Reni, edited and translated by C. Enggass, and R. Enggass, University Park 1980 and also 1982;

N. Turner, review of the exh. “Around 1610: the Onset of the Baroque,” in The Burlington Magazine, 127, 1985, p. 548;

S. Pepper, Guido Reni, L’Opera Completa, Milano 1988, no. 8, p. 328, pl. 6;

Fifty Paintings: A Catalogue Commemorating 10 Years of Collaboration, London–New York 1993, pp. 44-51, col. pl;

2001: An Art Odyssey 1500-1720, London 2001 exh. cat., pp. 156-67, ill. p. 157;

R. Spear, The “Divine” Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni, London 1997, p. 330, no. 89;

British Museum research collection online, registration no. 1895, 0915.693;

D. Benati, “Per Guido Reni ‘incamminato,’ tra Carracci e Caravaggio,” in Nuovi Studi, 11, 2004-2005, pp. 231-47, p. 244, no. 19;

E. Cropper and L. Pericolo (eds), Malvasia’s Felsina pittrice, Vol. IX: Life of Guido Reni, London 2017.

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