Category:The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga by Guercino (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Provenance:

• commissioned by Quaranta Sampieri on behalf of Don Ferrante III, Duke of Guastalla, for an altar in the right transept of the church of Santa Maria del Castello, Guastalla (by 1651–1805; valued at 500 scudi;
• expropriated in 1805 by Moreau, the French General Administrator for Guastalla);
• Mérédic-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint Méry, Parma (1805–6);
• the painter Gaetano Callani, Parma (1806; transferred to Junot);
• Jean Andache Junot, duc d'Abrantes, Paris (1806–d. 1813;
• his estate sale, Christie's, London, June 7, 1817, no. 35, bought in;
• his estate sale, Christie's, London, May 4, 1818, no. 58, for 190 gns. to Woodburn);
• [Samuel Woodburn, London, from 1818];
• [Carlo Sanquirico, Milan, until 1821;
• sold to Grant for 300 Luigi and 3 horses with their saddles (equivalent to 400 louis d'or)];
• John Grant, Kilgraston, Scotland (1821–d. 1873);
• his son, Charles Thomas Constantine Grant, Kilgraston (1873–d. 1891;
• his sale, T. Chapman & Son, Edinburgh, April 15, 1882, no. 87, for £100, bought in);
• his son, John Patrick Nisbet Hamilton Grant, Biel Dunbar, Scotland (1891–d. 1950);
• his cousin, Basil Charles Barrington Brooke (1950–57;
• sold through Agnew, London, to Wrightsman);
• Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York (1957–73; cat., 1973, no. 13)

• Edinburgh. Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland. "Third Exhibition of Ancient Pictures," April 17–?, 1826, no. 36 (as "Legend of St Louis," by Guercino, lent by John Grant, Esq.).
• London. British Institution. June 1857, no. 4 (as "St. Louis di Gonzaga, eldest son of the Duke of Mantua, who abdicated his succession to the Dukedom in favour of his brother, and entered the Society of the Jesuits, in the 16th century," lent by J.Grant, Esq.).
• London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Winter Exhibition," 1873, no. 225 (lent by John Grant).
• New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," March 26–May 24, 1987, not in catalogue.

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