St. Francis in the Wilderness
Old Master Prints of Five Centuries, Kansas City Public Library, KS, September-November 1967, no cat.
An Italian Panorama: The Romance of Ruins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 10, 2009-May 16, 2010, no cat., as St. Francis in the Wilderness.
An Italian Panorama: The Romance of Ruins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 19, 2017-January 14, 2018, no cat., as St. Francis in the Wilderness.
This print was made by an 18th-century Italian engraver working in London, after a composition by a 17th-century Italian artist based in Bologna, which gives an idea of the growth of art appreciation internationally. Guercino was very popular in 18th-century England. Although his subject matter was typically Catholic, his charm and easy virtuosity made him acceptable to Protestant connoisseurs.
With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by June 5, 1933;
Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
Alessandro Baudi di Vesme and Augusto Calabi, Francisco Bartolozzi: Catalogue des estampes et notice biographique (Milan: G. Modiano, 1928), no. 2112 I/II.
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 306, as St. Francis in the Wilderness.
