Saint Peter
manner of Guido Reni (Bologna 1575 – Bologna 1642)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
690 x 550 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959451
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Saint Peter, manner of Guido Reni (Bologna 1575 – Bologna 1642), second half of the 17th century. A half-length portrait of an old man with a grey beard wearing a blue drape, possibly St Peter.
Provenance
Probably acquired by Charles Winn (1795-1874), possibly from the Myton Hall sale in 1843, or from A. Grace in 1867; thence by descent; purchased by the National Trust by private treaty sale from Lord St Oswald in 2010.
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: frame label ‘GUIDO’
Makers and roles
manner of Guido Reni (Bologna 1575 – Bologna 1642), artist previously catalogued as circle of Giuseppe Maria Crespi (Bologna 1665 - Bologna 1747), artist
References
Brockwell 1915 Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St Oswald at Nostell Priory, London 1915, no. 4