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A Portrait of Cardinal Camillo Borghese

Oil on canvas
62 3/8 x 45 ¾ in. (158.4 x 116.2 cm)

Provenance:
Castello di Torre Ratti?; Marchese Montebruno, Genoa?; Swedish Art Market;
Colen Art, Lugano before 1985;1
Matthiesen Gallery, 1993; M. F. Collection.

Exhibited:
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 più illustri nella pittura, scultura, e architettura con i loro elogi, e ritratti incisi in rame
cominciando dalla sua prima restaurazione fino ai tempi presenti ... Florence 1769-1776.
Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Life of Guido Reni, edited and translated by C. Enggass, and R. Enggass,
Pennsylvania State Univ Press, 1980 and also 1982.
N. Turner, review of the exh. ‘Around 1610: the Onset of the Baroque’, The Burlington Magazine, 127, 1985, p. 548.
Stephen Pepper, Guido Reni, L’Opera Completa, Milan, 1988, No. 8, p. 328, pl. 6.
Fifty Paintings: A Catalogue commemorating 10 years of Collaboration, London, The Matthiesen Gallery, and New
York, Stair Sainty Matthiesen, 1993, pp. 44-51, col. pl.
2001: An Art Odyssey 1500-1720, London, The Matthiesen Gallery, 2001 exh.cat., pp.156-167, ill. p.157.
Richard Spear, The ‘Divine’ Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni, Yale University Press,
New Haven and London, 1997, 330, n.89.
British Museum research collection on line. Registration No. 1895, 0915.693.
D.Benati, ‘Per Guido Reni “incamminato”, tra Carracci e Caravaggio’ in Nuovi Studi, 11, 2004-5, pp.231-
247, see p.244, n.19.
E. Cropper & L. Pericolo (editors), Malvasia’s Felsina pittrice, Vol. IX: Life of Guido Reni (London, Harvey
Miller, forthcoming publication 2017).

1 A French newspaper cutting of c. 1940 originally pasted on the stretcher might appear to indicate a sometime French
provenance. The north Italian provenance was communicated by Colen Art.