Guido Reni

Provenance

Commissioned for María, Infanta of Spain, by the Spanish ambassador to Rome, in 1627
Seville cathedral
Horace François Bastien Sebastiani de la Porta, comte Sebastiani, later Maréchal (imported to Paris; sold to Delahante)
Alexis Delahante, London (sold to Taylor)
George Watson Taylor, Cavendish Square, London, and Erlestoke Mansion, Wiltshire (by 1818–32)
his sale, Christie's, London, 13 June 1823, nr. 65, as "Assumption of the Virgin," withdrawn
his sale, George Robins, Erlestoke, 25 July 1832, nr. 158, for £1,102.12 to Smith
with Smith, London, from 1832
Lord Francis Egerton, later 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Bridgewater House, London (by 1836–d. 1857; cats., 1851, 1856, nr. 117)
the Earls of Ellesmere, Bridgewater House (1857–1944; cats., 1897, 1907, nr. 117)
John Sutherland Egerton, 5th Earl of Ellesmere, Bridgewater House (1944–46)
his sale, Christie's, London, 18 October 1946, nr. 135, as "The Assumption," for £6.6 to Reder
David Reder, London (from 1946)
with Oscar Klein, New York, 1956–58
with Acquavella, New York, 1958–59; sold to MMA
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External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 59.32

Other works by Guido Reni

Sleeping Christ Child
late 1620s - early 1630s

The Martyrdom of St. Andrew
c. 1608

Christ as the Man of Sorrows

Cardinal Roberto Ubaldino
c. 1625

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
1639/42