Prudencio and Juan de la Puente Active in Tarazona, Western Aragon, during the first half of the 16th Century

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

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Description

Prudencio and Juan de la Puente
A retable:central panel: Christ as Redeemerleft panel: Adoration of the shepherdsright panel: Adoration of the Magi
oil on panel

Provenance

Thought to have been acquired by the present owner's family about fifty years ago.

Literature

C.R. Post, A History of Spanish Painting, 2nd Ed., New York 1976, vol. XIII, pp. 198-99, reproduced fig. 78.

Catalogue Note

These three panels originally formed the central sections of the bottom register of the retable for the chapel of St. Caprasius or Cabras in the church of San Miguel in Tarazona in western Aragon (see fig.1). The retable is documented as being completed on 3 October 1533. St. Caprasius was the martyred bishop saint of Agen in France.