Saint Joseph's Dream (Guercino)

It may be a pendant to Guercino's Saint Jerome, also now in the Palace.^[2] 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.^[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.^[1]