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Studio of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Bartolomé Estebán Murillo
- Saint Francis Xavier
- inscribed upper left: Satis est, Domine, satis est
- oil on canvas, in a painted oval
Provenance
H.A.J. Monro, London, unitl 1878;
With the Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, 1894;
Mrs James E. Scripps, until 1909;
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 16 July 1992, lot 77 (as Studio of Murillo, incorrectly catalogued as oval in shape);
With Joseph M. Guttman;
Private collection, The Netherlands;
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
With the Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, 1894;
Mrs James E. Scripps, until 1909;
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 16 July 1992, lot 77 (as Studio of Murillo, incorrectly catalogued as oval in shape);
With Joseph M. Guttman;
Private collection, The Netherlands;
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Exhibited
Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Institute, Five Centuries of Spanish Art, 1952, no. 28.
Literature
C.B. Curtis, Velázquez and Murillo, A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Works, New York 1883, cat. no. 300y;
Illustrated Catalogue of 100 Paintings of Old Masters...Belonging to the Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris 1894, no. 65, reproduced;
The Detroit Institute of Art, Catalogue of Paintings, Detroit 1944, p. 94, cat. no. 656;
M.S. Soria, A Catalogue of Spanish Paintings done between 1580-1850 in the United States and Canada, Ph.D. Diss., Harvard 1947, vol. II, p. 453;
D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo, Su Vida, Su Arte, Su Obra, Madrid 1981, vol. II, p. 254 under cat. no. 309 (as a 'buena réplica'), vol. III, fig. 34;
E. Valdivieso, Murillo. Catálogo Razonado de Pinturas, Madrid 2010 (incorrectly listed as still in Detroit) p. 494, cat. no. 329, reproduced (as by Murillo).
Illustrated Catalogue of 100 Paintings of Old Masters...Belonging to the Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris 1894, no. 65, reproduced;
The Detroit Institute of Art, Catalogue of Paintings, Detroit 1944, p. 94, cat. no. 656;
M.S. Soria, A Catalogue of Spanish Paintings done between 1580-1850 in the United States and Canada, Ph.D. Diss., Harvard 1947, vol. II, p. 453;
D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo, Su Vida, Su Arte, Su Obra, Madrid 1981, vol. II, p. 254 under cat. no. 309 (as a 'buena réplica'), vol. III, fig. 34;
E. Valdivieso, Murillo. Catálogo Razonado de Pinturas, Madrid 2010 (incorrectly listed as still in Detroit) p. 494, cat. no. 329, reproduced (as by Murillo).
Catalogue Note
A derivation from the full length depiction of the saint, painted around 1670 and today in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (see Iñiguez, op. cit., vol. II, p. 254, no. 309).