Study for Queen Semiramis Receiving News of the Revolt of Babylon,

1624

The artist’s nephews, Benedetto (1633–1715) and Cesare Gennari (1637–1688), Bologna; by descent to Giovan Francesco Gennari (1671–1727) and his brother Filippo Antonio Gennari (1677–1751); Giovan Francesco’s son Carlo Gennari (1716–1790); possibly the dealer Francesco Forni, Bologna; acquired with a large group of Guercino drawings in Bologna ca. 1745 by John Bouverie, East Betchworth, Surrey (ca. 1723–1750); his sister Anne Bouverie, London (d. 1757); her husband, John Hervey (d. 1764); his son, Christopher Hervey, East Betchworth, Surrey (d. 1786); his aunt and surviving sister of John Bouverie, Elizabeth Bouverie, Barham Court, Teston, Kent (d. 1798); by bequest to Sir Charles Middleton, later 1st Baron Barham, Barham Court, Kent (d. 1813); his son-in-law, Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baron Barham (d. 1838); his son, Charles Noel, 3rd Baron Barham and later 1st Earl of Gainsborough (d. 1866); thence by descent to Charles Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough, Exton Park, Oakham, Rutlandshire; his sale, Christie’s, London, July 27, 1922 (probably lot 84 or 85); purchased by E. Parsons & Sons, London; purchased on October 17, 1922, by Dan Fellows Platt (1873-1937); bequeathed to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1938.

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• Italian Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University, October 14, 1966 - May 5, 1968

• Drawings by Guercino and His Followers, April 8, 1974 - May 3, 1974