LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

11.02 in. (28.00 cm.) (height) by 7.64 in. (19.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

with the inventory number '18.' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Toledo, Museo de Santa Cruz, El Greco of Toledo: Painter of the Visible and the Invisible, 14 March-14 June 2014, no. 10, incorrectly described as 'oil on canvas'

Literature:

J. Camón Aznar, Dominico Greco , Madrid, 1950, II, p. 1367, no. 202. M.S. Soria, 'Greco's Italian Period', Arte veneta: Rivista di storia dell'arte , VIII, 1954, pp. 214 and 221, no. 64. H. Soehner, 'Greco in Spanien: Teil I: Grecos Stilentwicklung in Spanien', Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst , VIII, 1957, pp. 126 and 132, fig. 2. H. Soehner, 'Greco in Spanien: Teil III: Katalog der Gemälde Grecos, seines Ateliers und Seiner Nachfolge in Spanischem Besitz', Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst , IX-X, 1958-1959, p. 176, no. 3. H.E. Wethey, El Greco and His School , Princeton, 1962, II, p. 183, no. X79, as 'Follower of El Greco' but 'the best and presumably the earliest' of the three similar pictures of The Entombment, incorrectly described as 'tempera on panel'. J. Camón Aznar, Dominico Greco , Madrid, 1970, II, p. 1349, no. 214. L. Steinberg, 'An El Greco 'Entombment' Eyed Awry’, The Burlington Magazine , CXVI, no. 857, August 1974, pp. 474-475 and 477, fig. 90. N. Hadjinicolaou, ed., El Greco: Works in Spain , Rethymno, 1990, pp. 382 and 385 (reprinting Soehner, op. cit. ). A.G. Xydis, 'El Greco's Iconographical Sources', in N. Hadjinicolaou, ed., El Greco of Crete: Proceedings of the International Symposium held on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the artist's birth Iraklion, Crete, 1-5 September 1990 , Iraklion, 1995, pp. 149-150 and 152-3, note 39, with an incorrect illustration. J. Álvarez Lopera, El Greco. La obra esencial , Madrid, 1993, no. 29. J. Álvarez Lopera, El Greco. Estudio Y Catálogo , II, 1, Madrid, 2005, no. 29, fig. 44

Provenance:

Possibly) Miguel Lasso de la Vega y Madariaga (1783-1863), 10th Marqués de las Torres, and thence by descent to, Miguel Lasso de la Vega y Quintanilla (1830-1900), 12th Marqués de las Torres, and (probably) by descent to his son, José María de Ybarra y Menchacatorre (1880-1930), by whom (probably) bequeathed to his widow, Josefa Lasso de la Vega y Quintanilla (1884-1967), Condesa Viuda de Ybarra, Seville. Private collection, London