LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

23.03 in. (58.50 cm.) (height) by 18.50 in. (47.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Birmingham, Alabama, Spanish Splats, 1951-52. Palm Beach, Florida, Spanish Painting, 1952, no. 23. Syracuse, New York, Spanish Art, 1952, no. 7. Bordeaux, L'âge d'or espagnol, 1955, no. 31. Denver, Collector's Choice, 1958, no. 61. Madrid, Museo del Prado; Seville, Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Juan Valdes Léal, 1991, no. 11.

Literature:

A. Palomino, Museo pictórico y escala óptica, Madrid, 1724, p. 1053. J. Valverde, Dos pintores sevillanos en Córdoba, Sarabia y Valdés Leal, Madrid, 1963, p. 17. D. Kinkead, Valdés Leal, New York, 1978, pp. 79 and 350-1. E. Valdivieso, Historia de la pintura sevillana, Seville, 1986, p. 263. E. Valdivieso, Juan de Valdés Leal, Seville, 1988, pp. 56-7 and 213, fig. 32, no. 24, where dated c. 1654-6, the artist's second Cordoba period.

Provenance:

Private collection, Córdoba, until 1880. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 28 June 1974, lot 52, when acquired by the family of the current owner.