id: 144303 accession number: 1969.132 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.132 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:22.550000 Adoration of the Magi, 1642. Guido Reni (Italian, 1575–1642). Oil on canvas; framed: 378 x 280.5 x 10.5 cm (148 13/16 x 110 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.); unframed: 367.3 x 268.6 cm (144 5/8 x 105 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1969.132 title: Adoration of the Magi title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1642 creation date earliest: 1642 creation date latest: 1642 current location: 217 Italian Baroque creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Guido Reni (Italian, 1575–1642) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 378 x 280.5 x 10.5 cm (148 13/16 x 110 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Unframed: 367.3 x 268.6 cm (144 5/8 x 105 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1969 opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1969- footnotes: citations: (P.&D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1 date: by 1968-1969 footnotes: *
1 Colnaghi’s records do not indicate the date they acquired the painting from Princess Corsini, but it was likely by December 1968, when Roderic Thesiger of Colnaghi wrote to Sherman Lee about the painting.  
citations: Corsini Collection, Florence, to Colnaghi 1 date: Probably 1880-by 1968 footnotes: *
1 When Prince Carlo Felice Barberini-Colonna di Sciarra, Duca di Castelvecchio, died in 1880, his collection was divided between his two daughters, Anna [1840-1911], who married Prince Tommaso Corsini, and Luisa [1844-1906], who married Tommaso’s younger brother, Pietro Francesco Corsini.  It was probably at this time that the paintings entered the Corsini collection in Florence.

citations: Barberini-Colonna di Sciarra collection, Rome, by descent to the Corsini collection date: Probably 1812-1880 footnotes: *
1 In 1812 the Barberini collection was split between the Barberini and Colonna di Sciarra branches of the family; after the 1728 marriage of Cornelia Barberini to Giulio Cesare Colonna di Sciarra, the family was known as Barberini-Colonna, or Colonna di Sciarra.   The Casa Barberini inventory of 1844 lists the painting, “Venuta dei Magi,” as by Reni (no. 464).  The “F92” inscribed in the lower left corner of the painting is the fidecommesso number: These painted numbers were assigned c. 1816 upon the establishment of a fidecommesso (entailment), which meant that the Barberini inheritance could not be broken up, but had to remain intact from generation to generation. 
citations: Cardinal Francesco Barberini [1597 –1679] by inheritance within the Barberini family, Barberini Palace, Rome, by descent to the Barberini-Colonna di Sciarra collection 1 date: 1645-1812 footnotes: *
1 A receipt dated April 21, 1645, documenting the final payment of 34 scudi to Giuseppe Reni, the artist’s heir, records the acquisition of the painting by the Barberini family: “To Giuseppe Reni thirty-four scudi are [paid] for the remaining and whole payment of the price of a painting, done by Guido Reni, which represents the representation of the Magi, delivered to our said service [?] Guardarobba…this day, April 21, 1645” (Biblioteca Vaticana, Archivio Barberini, Armadio 42, Registro di Mandati 1642-1648, Cardinal Francesco Barberini Mandato No. 2666 (new series)).  Due to its unfinished state, the painting was not included in the official inventories of the Barberini collection until 1844, when it was listed as “Venuta dei Magi, Guido Reni, al. p.i 15, lar. P.i 12.” 
citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "Guido Reni, The Adoration of the Magi." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LVIII no. 10 (December, 1971):278-289. page number: Reproduced: cover; p. 278, fig. 1 url: Emiliani, Andrea. "Un Viaggio Sconosciuto di Francesco Gessi." Arte Antica e Moderna I (1958): 53-57.
Attributed to Francesco Gessi. page number: Mentioned: P. 57; reproduced: pl. 26b url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 394; Mentioned: p. 395-396 url: Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1969." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LVII no. 1 (January, 1970):2-51. page number: Reproduced: p. 2, fig. 149; Mentioned: p. 49, no. 149 url: Butler, Joseph T. "The American Way with Art." The Connoisseur 175, no. 700 (June 1970): 158-163. page number: Mentioned: P. 161 url: Garboli, Cesare, Guido Reni, and Edi Baccheschi. L'opera completa di Guido Reni. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1971. page number: Reproduced: no. 202; Mentioned: p. 114-115 url: Sherman Lee, “Guido Reni: The Adoration of the Magi,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 10 (Dec. 1971): 278-289. page number: url: Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg. Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1975. page number: Mentioned: p. 32, Doc. 270, p. 511, p. 535 url: Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, and Marilyn Aronberg Lavin. Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art. New York: New York University Press, 1975. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 137 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n157 Pepper, D. Stephen. "A New Late Work by Guido Reni for Edinburgh and His Late Manner Re-Evaluated." The Burlington Magazine 121, no. 916 (1979): 418-25. page number: Mentioned: P.424, n. 30 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/879677 Reni, Guido, and D. Stephen Pepper. Guido Reni: A Complete Catalogue of His Works with an Introductory Text. Oxford: Phaidon, 1984. page number: url: Myers, Bernard S. Encyclopedia of World Art. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1987. page number: Reproduced: vol. XVI, pl. XL, url: Salvy, Gérard-Julien. Guido Reni. Paris, France: Gallimard, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 158, fig. 208 url: Olszewski, Edward J. The Inventory of Paintings of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740). New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 327, fig. 43 url: Olszewski, Edward J. Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2004. page number: url: Malvasia, Carlo Cesare, Elizabeth Cropper and.Lorenzo Pericolo. Felsina Pittrice/ Lives of the Bolognese Painters: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation. Washington [D.C.]: Published for the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts; London: Harvey Miller, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 428, fig. 294 url: Christiansen, Keith. "Le Creation tardive d'une collection de peintures baroques au Metropolitan Museum of Art." In Aux origines d'un goût: la peinture baroque aux États-Unis = Creating the taste for baroque painting in America. Anna Ottani Cavina, and Keith Christiansen, 61-73. [Paris?] : Paris Tableau, 2015. page number: Mentioned: p. 64, 70 url: Grassi, Marco. "The American View of the Forgotten Century of Italian Painting: Reminiscences of a Conservator and Art Dealer." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America. Edited by Edgar Peters Bowron, 40-53. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Frick Collection, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. page number: Mentioned: p. 49 url: "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly XXXIII, no. 3 (Autumn 1970): 318-338. page number: Reproduced: P. 328; mentioned: P. 323 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.132/1969.132_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.132/1969.132_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.132/1969.132_full.tif