Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Property from a Private Collection
MARTÍN GÓMEZ THE ELDER | SAINT CATHERINE
Lot Closed
July 29, 12:04 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
MARTÍN GÓMEZ THE ELDER
Active in Cuenca circa 1552 - circa 1574
SAINT CATHERINE
oil on pine panel
unframed: 76.5 x 40.8 cm.; 30 x 16 in.
framed: 79.7 x 44.9 cm.; 31⅜ x 17¾ in.
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Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 December 2004, lot 314, where acquired.
Martín Gómez the Elder was a close follower of Fernando Yañez de Almedina, to whom this painting was formerly attributed. His production is documented in Cuenca, where he worked on numerous commissions to decorate the interior of the cathedral in about 1552–74.1
We are grateful to Dr. Fernando Benito Doménech who, on the basis of digital images, endorsed the attribution to Martín Gómez the Elder when the painting was last on the market.
1 For the attribution and further information on the artist, see C.R. Post, A History of Spanish Painting, The Valencian School in the Early Renaissance, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1953 (reprint New York 1970), vol. XI, pp. 337–52.