Saint Joseph's Dream (Guercino)

Saint Joseph's Dream is an oil-on-canvas painting executed ca. 1615–1650 by the Italian Baroque artist Guercino, now in the Royal Palace of Naples.[1]

Saint Joseph's Dream by Guercino

History

It may be a pendant to Guercino's Saint Jerome, also now in the Palace.[2] It was moved from Parma to Naples with the rest of the Farnese collection in 1734 when the Kingdom of Naples was inherited by Charles of Bourbon.[2] It was recorded in an inventory of the Palace's collections in 1874 but later fell into obscurity.

At the end of the twentieth century it was rediscovered and re-evaluated by critics, who identified it in the abbey of Montevergine in Avellino, where there was also the Saint Jerome, as a work from the deposits of Capodimonte under the attribution to Francesco Di Maria.[1]

References
  1. (in Italian) "Cultura Italia: Sogno di San Giuseppe". Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  2. (in Italian) I Farnese. Arte e collezionismo, Milano, Editrice Electa, 1995, ISBN 88-435-5132-9, pp. 314-315.
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