LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

42.32 in. (107.50 cm.) (height) by 32.28 in. (82.00 cm.) (width)

Condition:

With a 1 3/4 In. Later Addition Along The Top

Exhibited:

Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,. Exposición de Pintura Española, de Los Primativos a Rosales , 1939, no. 18 (as by El Greco).

Literature:

R. Becerro de Bengoa,. El estudio del gran pintor Casado , Madrid 1886, p. 15 (as an admirable. Veronica by El Greco);. Sampere y Miquel, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Hombre 1 in. Revista de la Asociacion-Artistico-Arqueologica-Barcelonesa , Ano IV, Marzo-Abril 1900, no. 18, p. p. 391, reproduced p. 384 (mentions a. Saint Veronica from the Casado family in Buenos Aires);. M. B. Cossio,. El Greco , Madrid 1908, p. 612, cat. no. 358 (as by El Greco, but he has only seen photographs);. A. L Mayer,. El Greco , Munich 1911, p. 81 (as a late work);. A. L. Mayer. , Dominico Theotocopuli, el Greco , Munich 1926, cat. no. 67b (as a copy of an original of. circa 1590-95, but he reproduces the version in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich as the Casado family picture);. F. de B. San Roman, De la vida del Greco, in. Archivo Espanol de Arte, Centro de estudios historicos , no. 9, Madrid 1927, p. 296 (identifying the present painting as no. 96 in the 1621 posthumous inventory of the artist's possessions);. J. C. Aznar,. Dominico Greco , Madrid 1950, vol. I, pp. 418 and 419, reproduced figs. 301 and 302, p. 420; vol. II, p. 1364, cat. nos. 139 and 140 (as a late work by El Greco; however he mistakenly conflates the Casado provenance with the Munich painting (cat. no. 139); his correct entry on the Casado painting is cat. no. 140);. H. Soehner, "Greco in Spanien: Teil I: Grecos Stilentwicklung in Spanien,". Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst , VIII, 1957, p. 179 (as a replica by Jorge Manuel of a lost original datable to. circa 1603/05);. E. Bénézit,. Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs , Paris 1976, vol. 5, p. 184 (mentioned under versions of the. Holy Face );. H.E. Wethey, . El Greco and His School , Princeton 1962, vol. II, p. 148, p. 258, cat. no. X-459 (as School of El Greco, early 17th century);. T. Frati,. L'opera completa del Greco , Milano 1969, p. 95, under cat. no. 22c (as confused in the past with the Munich picture and considered by Wethey to be a copy from the early 17th century);. J. C. Aznar,. Dominico Greco , Madrid 1970, vol. I, p. 437, reproduced pp. 438 and 439, figs. 335 and 336; vol. II, p. 1345 cat. no. 143 (as by El Greco, datable . circa 1610);. J. Gudiol,. Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Le Gréco, 1541-1614 , Paris 1973, cat. no. 235, reproduced fig. 261 (as by El Greco, datable. circa 1608-1614);. L. Ruiz Gomez,. El Greco en el Museo Nacional del Prado: catalogo razonado , Madrid 2007, p. 65, note 1 (as probably no. 169 in the 1621 inventory, but does not comment on attribution).

Provenance:

Probably the painting listed in the second posthumous inventory of the artist's possessions in 1621, no. 169, Una muger Veronica, 1 by 1 ¼ . varas [approximately 81 by 104 cm.] (see note below);. In the collection of the painter, José Casado del Alisal (1830/32-1886), Madrid;. By inheritance to his brother, Carlos Casado del Alisal, who took it to Buenos Aires in 1900;. Thence by descent in the family;. From whom acquired by Bonifacio del Carril, Buenos Aires, before 1960;. From whom acquired by the present owner in 1973.