Circle of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called il Guercino (Cento 1591-1666 Bologna)The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
oil on canvas, tondo
71.2 cm. (28 in.) diameter
unframed注脚Provenance
Ca'n Puig and Castillo Bendinat, Mallorca
Their sale, Christie's, Mallorca, 24-25 May 1999, lot 681
Sale, Bonhams, London, 7 December 2005, lot 137

Literature
N. Turner, The Paintings of Guercino A Revised and Expanded Catalogue Raisonné, Rome, 2017, no. 128.II, p. 399 (as a copy)

The present composition is derived from the prototype by Guercino now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. There are, however, some small differences and pentimenti in the lot offered here, suggesting that perhaps it could have been a modello for the Cleveland picture. It is recorded that a modello of the Cleveland picture was sold in Rome in 1819 to Leon Dufourny and was later purchased by the great collector Baron D. Vivant-Denon in 1826. The picture was then sold by Count de Pourtales-Gorgier in Paris in March 1865. The date of the latter sale ties in with the appearance of the picture in the collection offered by Christie's in 1999. In the early 19th century two sisters from aristocratic Catalonian families, Dona Joana de Rocaberti-Boixador i Cotoner and Dona de Pax-Boixador i Cotoner married the Marquis de Bellpuig and the Marquis de Vivot, a member of the Arbol family (owners of the Ca'n Puig and Castillo Bendinat). The Marquis de Bellpuig and his wife were appointed as ambassadors to Paris, and their descendants were very closely aligned to the city.