Saint Joseph's Dream (Guercino)

Saint Joseph's Dream is an oil-on-canvas painting executed ca.

1615–1650 by the Italian Baroque artist Guercino, now in the Royal Palace of Naples.

[1] It may be a pendant to Guercino's Saint Jerome, also now in the Palace.

[2] 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, where there was also the Saint Jerome, as a work from the deposits of Capodimonte under the attribution to Francesco Di Maria.