Provenance
(Probably) Prince Don Urbano Barberini (Inventory of 1686, no.71 'Una Testa d'un Santo alta p.3, e larga p.2 incirca, con le mani, che tiene un panno bianco ... mano del Guercino')
with Julius Weitzner, 1957
The Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina
Literature
Accessions, Art Quarterly, Sept. 1960, p.400
M. Havens, Collection of Religious Art at Bob Jones University, Art Journal, XXI, no.2, 1961-2, p.114, fig.5
Bob Jones University Catalogue, Greenville, 1962, I, p.134, illustrated
The Law and the Prophets, New York, 1971, p.80, illustrated on the cover
F. Vivian, Guercino seen from the Archivio Barberini, The Burlington Magazine, CXIII, no.814, Jan. 1971, p.23 and fig.29 'an excellent example of Guercino's handling of the mid 1620s and of his forcible drawing of an elderly head' B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, 1972, p.98
M. Aronberg Lavin, Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art, New York, 1975, p.397
D. S. Pepper, Bob Jones University Collection of Religious Art. Italian Paintings, Greenville, 1984, p.66, no.63.1, illustrated p.213 L. Salerno, I Dipinti del Guercino, Rome, 1988, p.405, no.346 bis, illustrated
