Saint John the Baptist

Sir Denis Mahon has confirmed that the present painting is a seventeenth century version of a lost original by Guercino (verbal communication, Sept. 4, 1998). Another version of this composition, believed to have been executed by the workshop, is in Christ Church, Oxford (for which see L. Salerno, I Dipinti del Guercino, 1988, p. 428 and J. Byam Shaw, Paintings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, 1967, pp. 110-1, no. 206, pl. 140).