LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
23.94 in. (60.80 cm.) (height) by 15.91 in. (40.40 cm.) (width)
Exhibited:
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Masters of the Loaded Brush: Oil Sketches from Rubens to Tiepolo, 4 April - 29 April, 1967, no. 6
Literature:
J. Costello, 'The twelve pictures "ordered by Velasquez" and the trial of Valguarnera', in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XIII, London, 1950, pp. 271 & 273
Provenance:
Probably) acquired from the artist by Don Fabrizio Valguarnera (d. 1632), before March 1631, for 30 scudi, and listed in his inventory as 'Il quadretto di S. Ignazio cola Mad.a et altri santi piccolo'