''Saint Joseph's Dream'' is an oil-on-canvas painting executed ca. 1615–1650 by the Italian
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
artist
Guercino, now in the
Royal Palace of Naples.
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History
It may be a
pendant to Guercino's ''
Saint Jerome'', also now in the Palace.
[ ''I Farnese. Arte e collezionismo'', Milano, Editrice Electa, 1995, ISBN 88-435-5132-9, pp. 314-315.] It was moved from Parma to Naples with the rest of the
Farnese collection in 1734 when the Kingdom of Naples was inherited by
Charles of Bourbon.
It was recorded in an inventory of the Palace's collections in 1874 but later fell into obscurity.
At the end of the twentieth century it was rediscovered and re-evaluated by critics, who identified it in the abbey of Montevergine in
Avellino
Avellino () is a town and ''comune'', capital of the province of Avellino in the Campania region of southern Italy. It is situated in a plain surrounded by mountains east of Naples and is an important hub on the road from Salerno to Benevento. ...
, where there was also the ''Saint Jerome'', as a work from the deposits of
Capodimonte under the attribution to
Francesco Di Maria.
References
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Farnese Collection
Paintings by Guercino
Paintings in the Royal Palace of Naples
Paintings of Saint Joseph