Category:Pope Gregory XV (Guercino - Getty Center)

• about 1622/1623 - 1623, Pope Gregory XVItalian, 1554 - 1623 (Rome, Italy), possibly commissioned from the artist, about 1622/1623; by inheritance within the Ludovisi family, 1623.
• 1623 - possibly still in 1633, Ludovisi Family (Rome, Italy). Source: Possibly the same as no. 245[b] in the 1633 inventory of Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi (nephew of Gregory XV): "Un Ritratto della s.m. di Greg.o XVo cornice dorata, et intagliata alta pmi sei."
• by 1854 - 1885, William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley1817 - 1885 (Witley Court, Hereford and Worcester, England)
• by inheritance to William Humble, 1885.
• 1885 - 1900, William Humble Ward, 2nd earl of Dudley1867 - 1932 (Witley Court, Hereford and Worcester, England)
• [sold, Dudley sale, Christie's, London, June 16, 1900, lot 30, to S.T. Smith.] Note: as Titian, "Portrait of a Cardinal in Red Robes"

1900* S.T. Smith

• 1900 - Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd. (London, England)
• by 1908 - 1919, Ralph Cross Johnson1843 - 1923 (Washington, D.C.)
• donated to the the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution (renamed the National Collection of Fine Arts, and in 1980, the National Museum of American Art), 1919.
• 1919 - 1987, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.)
• sold, 1987: purchased by J. Paul Getty Museum from National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
  

• Exhibition of Art Treasures, 1857, cat. no.  374 - lent by Lord Ward
• Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1871 - lent by Earl of Dudley
• Baroque Portraiture in Italy: Works from North American Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 20 March 1985–20 May 1985, cat. no.  26
• The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, 10 September 1986–10 November 1986, cat. no.  165
• The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries, National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C., 19 December 1986–16 February 1987, cat. no.  165
• The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Category:New York, 26 March 1987–24 May 1987, cat. no.  165
• Giovanni Francesco Barbieri: Il Guercino, 1591 - 1666, Museo Civico, Bologna, 6 September 1991–10 November 1991, cat. no.  56
• Giovanni Francesco Barbieri: Il Guercino, 1591 - 1666, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, 2 December 1991–9 February 1992, cat. no.  56
• The Genius of Rome 1592 - 1623, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 20 January 2001–16 April 2001, cat. no.  9
• Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, 5 August 2008–26 October 2008, cat. no.  1.5
• Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna 1575-1725, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, 16 December 2008–3 May 2009, cat. no.  pl. 14

• Google Arts & Culture asset ID: _QH7wragDlRdig 
• J. Paul Getty Museum object ID: 103RJ4 
• Smartify artwork ID: guercino-giovanni-francesco-barbieri-pope-gregory-xv 
• Zeri image ID: 51347 
• Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID: 20291987