Francisco Antolínez y Sarabia Seville circa 1644 - circa 1700

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Francisco Antolínez y Sarabia
Jacob's dream
oil on canvas

Provenance

Alejandro Maria Aguado, Marquis de Las Marismas de Guadalquivir (1785-1842);
His deceased sale, Paris, Dubois, 20-28 March 1843, lot 51 (as Murillo);
Anonymous sale, Paris, Christie's, 15 December 2004, lot 515 (as Circle of Murillo), where acquired by the present owner.

Exhibited

New York, Wildenstein, The Painter as Historian, 15 November-31 December 1962, no. 7, reproduced.

Tel Aviv, Museum of Art, Old Testament Old Masters. The Bible in 16th - 19th Century art, 19 August 2005 - 29 April 2006.

Literature

J.D.C. Guavard and L. Viardot, Galerie aguado: choix des principaux tableaux de la galerie de M. le Marquis de las Marismas de Guadalquivir, Paris 1939, reproduced plate 16 (engraving by Gavard);
W.B. Scott, Murillo and the Spanish School of Painting, London and New York, 1873, reproduced plate 92 (engraving by J. Kernott);
C.B. Curtis, Velasquez et Murillo..., London 1883, p. 119, no. 8;
G. Kubler and M. Soria, Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal and their American Dominions 1500 to 1800, Baltimore 1959, p. 388, note 8 (Ignacio de Iriarte);
I. Hempel Lipshutz, Spanish Paintings and the French Romantics, Cambridge 1977, p. 238;
D. Angulo Iniguez, Murillo, Madrid 1981, vol. II, p. 342, no. 465 (as Francisco Antolinez).

Engraved:
By Jacques Dominique Charles Gavard, 1839;
By Jacques Kernott, 1873.