David with the Head of Goliath
Framed: 56 3/16 x 29 1/2 inches (142.72 x 74.93 cm)
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Old Masters: Recent Acquisitions, Agnew, London, March 12-April 10, 1968, no. 2.
Il Guercino, Palazzo dell’ Archginnasio, Bologna, Italy, September 1-November 18, 1968, no. 24.
Special Loan, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England, February 1969-July 1972, no. cat.
England and the Seicento: A Loan Exhibition of Bolognese Paintings from British Collections, Agnew, London, November 6-December 7, 1973, no. 32.
Scenes from the Hebrew Scriptures, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 2-September 18, 1983, no. 44.
Judge James A. Murnaghan (1881-1973), Dublin, by 1925-1967;
Purchased from Murnaghan by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, stock no. 6285, 1967-September 20, 1968 [1];
Purchased from Agnew by the trustees of the David Jennings Discretionary Trust, London, September 20, 1968-July 12, 1972;
Purchased from the Jennings trustees by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, stock no. J.7662, July 12, 1972-November 3, 1975 [2];
Purchased from Agnew by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1975.
NOTES:
[1] According to Geoffrey Agnew, Thomas Agnew and Sons, in a letter to Ralph T. Coe, May 15, 1975, NAMA curatorial files.
[2] The National Gallery, London, Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd. Archive, NGA27/1/1, Picture Stock Books.
Denis Mahon, Il Guercino: Dipinti, exh. cat. (Bologna: Alfa, 1968), 50, 58-59, 60, (repro.).
Old Masters: Recent Acquisitions, exh. cat. (London: Thomas Agnew and Sons, 1968), 4, (repro.).
Illustrated London News (March 23, 1968): 26, (repro.).
Benedict Nicolson, “Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: General,” Burlington Magazine 110, no. 781 (April 1968): 228, (repro.).
“Editorial: The Individuality of Guercino,” Apollo 88 (November 1968): 324.
Denis Mahon, Il Guercino: Disegni, exh. cat. (Bologna: Alfa, 1969), 57.
Terence Mullaly, “Exceptional Guercino at Hull,” The Daily Telegraph (April 3, 1969).
Renato Roli, G. F. Barbieri, Guercino (Milan: Aldo Martello Editore, 1972), 20, (repro.).
Catherine Johnston, Mostra di disegni bolognesi dal XVI al XVIII Secolo, exh. cat. (Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1973), 75-76, (repro.).
Clovis Whitfield, England and the Seicento: A Loan Exhibition of Bolognese Paintings from British Collections, exh. cat. (London: Thomas Agnew and Sons, 1973), (repro.).
D. Stephen Pepper, “Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions. London: England and the Seicento,” Burlington Magazine 115 (December 1973): 827.
“Recent Acquisitions,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 5, no. 3 (February 1976): 36, (repro.).
Scenes from the Hebrew Scriptures, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 13, 33, (repro.).
Dillon Gianvittorio, Italian XVIIth-Century drawings from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, exh. cat. (Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1986), 120.
Luigi Salerno and Denis Mahon, I dipinti del Guercino (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 1988), 8, 38, 121, (repro.).
Denis Mahon and Nicholas Turner, The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 2, (repro.).
Stéphane Loire, Le Guerchin en France, exh. cat. (Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musée nationaux, 1990), 94, (repro.).
David M. Stone, Guercino: Catalogo complete dei dipinti (Florence: Cantini, 1991), no. 39, p. 59, (repro.).
Nicholas Turner and Carol Plazzotta, Drawings by Guercino from British Collections, exh. cat. (London: British Museum Press, 1991), 38.
Denis Mahon, Guercino: Master Painter of the Baroque, exh. cat. (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1992), 44-47, 68n20, 68n27, 68n28, (repro.).
Nicholas Turner, Guercino: Drawings from Windsor Castle, exh. cat. (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1992), 20, (repro.).
Eliot Wooldridge Rowlands, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Italian Paintings 1300-1800, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 244-51, (repro.).
