Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

1. Cardinal Girolamo Colonna (died 1666), Palazzo Colonna, Rome, by 1647 [Colonna collection inventory, 1647, no. 169; see Safarik 1996 for this and the following]; by descent in the Colonna family, until at least 1783 [Colonna collection inventory, 1783, no. 174]. Earl of Darnley, Cobham Hall, Kent, England, by 1812 [Graves 1912, no. 62]; by descent to Iva Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley (died 1927); sold, Sotheby's, London, July 22-23, 1957, lot 318, to "Nash" for £100. George Wildenstein, London and New York, by March 1958 [record of phone conversation between Ay Wang Hsia, Wildenstein and Company, and Art Institute, April 4 and April 18, 1990, in curatorial object file.]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1960.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, British Institution, 1819, no. 62, as Judith with Head of Holofernes.
• Detroit Institute of Arts, Art in Italy, 1600-1700, Apr. 6-May 9, 1965, no. 82.
• Bologna, Pinoteca Nazionale, Guido Reni, 1575-1642, Sep. 5-Nov. 13, 1988, cat. 71; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 11, 1988-Feb. 5, 1989, cat. 59; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Mar. 9-May 14, 1989 [Bologna only].
• Frankfurt, Städel Museum, Guido Reni: The Divine, Nov. 23, 2022 - Mar. 5, 2023, cat. 158; Madrid, Museo del Prado, Guido Reni, Mar. 28 - July 9, 2023, cat. 82.

• Luca Assarino, Sensi d'umiltà e di stupore havuti da Luca Assarino, intorno le grandezze dell'eminentissimo cardinal Sacchetti, e le pitture di Guido Reni (Bologna, 1639), 29-30.
• Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Felsina pittrice: vite de' pittori bolognesi, vol. 2 (Bologna: Per l'erede di Domenico Barbieri, 1678; repr., Bologna: Tipografia Guidi all'Ancora, 1841), 64.
• Filippo Titi, Descrizione delle pitture, sculture e architetture esposte al pubblico in Roma (Rome: Marco Pagliarini, 1763; repr., Rome: Multigrafica Editrice, 1978), 482.
• Abbe [Jerome] Richard, Description historique et critique de l'italie, ou, Nouveaux mémoires sur l'état actuel de son gouvernement, des sciences, des arts, du commerce, de la population et de l'histoire naturelle, vol. 6 (Dijon: 1766; repr., Paris: Delalain, 1770), 54-56.
• Joseph Jérôme le Français de Lalande, Voyage d'un françois en italie, fait dans les années 1765 et 1766, vol. 3 (Venice and Paris: Desaint, 1769; repr., Yverdon: [F.-B. de Felice,] 1769-90), 458.
• Marcello Oretti, Le pitture che si ammirano nelli palaggi, e case de'nobili della Città di Bologna e di altri edifici in da Città, vol. 1 (Bologna: Biblioteca Comunale, 1769), 65 MS 8.104.
• Adamo Chiusole, letterario delle pitture, sculture, e architetture più rare di molte città d'Italia (Vicenza: nella Stamperia Turra, 1782), 263.
• Catalogo dei Qudri, e Pitture esistenti nel Palazzo dell’ Eccellentissima Casa Colonna in Roma (Rome: Presso Arcangelo Casaletti, 1783), 29 no. 174.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Basilius von Ramdohr, Ueber Mahlerei und Bildhauerarbeit in Romfiir Liebhaber des Schonen in der Kunst, vol. 2 (Leipzig: Bei Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1787), 79-80.
• Mariano Vasi, Itinéraire instructif de Rome: ou, Description genera le des monumens antiques et modernes et des ouvrages les plus remarquables de peinture, de sculpture et d'architecture de cette ce/ebre ville et de ses environs, vol. 1 (Rome: Pagliarini, 1792), 325.
• G[eorg] K[aspar] Nagler, Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexicon, vol. 13 (Munich: Verlag von E. A. Fleischmann, 1843), 16.
• [Gustav] Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, illuminated M[anu]s[cript]s, etc., vol. 3 (London: John Murray, 1854), 21, no. 2.

Abduction of Helen

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David with the Head of Goliath

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Science or The Love of Study

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Saint Christopher

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St. Michael Archangel and the Devil

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Le Char de l'Aurore (The Chariot of Dawn) (Furnishing Fabric)

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Head of Putto

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Study for Saint Benedict Receiving Gifts from the Peasants

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