Sleeping Christ Child

Duc d'Orleans, in Galerie du Palais Royal
Walkuers, Brussels
Laborde de Mereville
Francis Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater, d. 1803.
George Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl of Gower, then Marquis of Stafford (1803), then (1833) Duke of Sutherland. Nephew of Duke of B.; d. 1846.
Francis Leveson-Gower. Son of Duke of B.; created first Earl of Ellesmere in 1846.
Sold from Ellesmere Collection in 1946. Christie's, Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Pictures, A portion of the Bridgewater Collection, October 17, 1946, p.18, no. 137.
Bruton Kent, Ltd., London.
J. Lionberger Davis (bought from Bruton Kent in Jan. 1948); 1952 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.

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• Richard E. Spear, "Guido Reni at Princeton", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 22, no. 2 (1963): 35-44., p. 36 (illus.)
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• Richard E. Spear, "Notes on two copper paintings by Domenichino and Guido Reni," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 48, no. 1 (1989): p. 28-36., p. 33, fig. 7
• Daniela Soleri, Marcus Winter, Steven R. Bozarth, and W. Jeffrey Hurst, "Archaeological Residues and Recipes: Exploratory Testing for Evidence of Maize and Cacao Beverages in Postclassic Vessels from the Valley of Oaxaca," Latin American antiquity 24, no. 3 (2013): p. 345-362., fig. 1, p. 348 (illus. detail drawing)