LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.35 in. (64.40 cm.) (height) by 36.69 in. (93.20 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Dusseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, El Greco and Modernism, 28 April-12 August 2012.

Literature:

M.B. Cossio, El Greco, Madrid, 1908, II, p. 591, note 1, as ‘an old copy after El Greco’. M. Gomez Moreno, ‘La despedida de Cristo y la Virgen, cuadro del Greco’, Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueologia, III, no. 7, 1927. H. Soehner, ‘Greco in Spanien II-III’, Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, 1958-9, IX-X, no. 242, as ‘a copy dating to circa 1691-1711’. H.E. Wethey, El Greco and His School, Princeton, 1962, II, p. 180-1, under no. X-69, as ‘a copy of undetermined date’. L. Ruiz Gomez, ‘El reencuentro con un original de El Greco’, Ars magazine: revista de arte y coleccionismo, 2012, XIV, pp. 55-64. F. Marias (ed.), El Greco of Toledo: Painter of the Visible and the Invisible, exhibition catalogue, Toledo, Museo de Santa Cruz, 2014, p. 195.

Provenance:

Oballe Chapel, Iglesia de San Vicente, Toledo, until 1961. Art Market, France, after 1961, as ‘Spanish School, 18th century’. Private collection, Europe.