LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

29.53 in. (75.00 cm.) (height) by 22.83 in. (58.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

indistinctly signed lower left: domén. ...kopol....

Exhibited:

London, Tomás Harris, Old Masters by Spanish Artists, June 1931, reproduced p. 11; Paris, 140 Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Domenico Theotocopuli. El Greco (Exposition organizée par la Gazette des Beaux-Arts), 1937, no. 24 (lent by Contini Bonacossi).

Literature:

Old Masters by Spanish Artists, exhibition catalogue, London 1931, p. 11 (as El Greco); Dr. T. Borenius in Pantheon, May 1931, p. 203 (as El Greco); Art News, 11 July 1931, vol XXIX, no 38, p. 3, reproduced p. 12 (as El Greco); H. Furst, 'Art News and Notes,' in Apollo, July-December, 1931, vol. 14, p. 63, reproduced between pp. 68-69 (as El Greco); The Studio, vol. 102, July-December 1931,pp. 147, 149; A. Rubinstein et al., Domenico Theotocopuli. El Greco, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1937, no. 24 (as El Greco and datable 1588-91); J. Camón Aznar, Domenico Greco, Madrid 1950, vol. II, p. 1365, no. 483 (as El Greco); H. E. Wethey, El Greco and His School, Princeton 1962, vol. II, pp. 113-14, no. 206, fig. 250 (as El Greco and studio); G. Manzini et al., L'opera completa del Greco, Milan 1969, p. 104, cat. no. 70d (as El Greco); J. Gudiol, El Greco, 1541-1614, Barcelona 1971, no. 197 (as El Greco, and datable 1603-07); J. M. Pita Andrade, El Greco, Milan 1981/Paris 1983, no. 234, reproduced p. 183 (as El Greco and datable 1600-05); D. Davies (ed.), El Greco, exhibition catalogue, London and New York 2003-04, p. 150, under cat. no. 33, note 1.

Provenance:

Possibly Marqués de Aldama, Madrid; With Tomás Harris, London, 1931, by whom probably sold to; Conte Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955), Florence; With Galerie Julius Böhler, Munich, 1970; Acquired from the above by Dr. Gustav Rau (1922-2002); Bequeathed by Dr. Rau to UNICEF.