LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
with approx. 3 by 6 cm. tacking edge folded out
Exhibited:
Leeds, Dudley Gallery, National Exhibition of Works of Art, 1868, no. 2911, as Murillo (on loan from the Earl of Dudley);
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, 1871, no. 384, as Murillo (on loan from the Earl of Dudley);
New London, Lyman Allyn Museum, Spanish Paintings of the XVI to XX centuries, 7 March - 11 April 1948, no. 11, as Murillo;
Buenos Aires, Museo Municipal de Arte Hispano Americano, Exposición de Obras Maestras Siglo XII al XVII, May - July 1951, no. 23, as Murillo, Saint Justa;
Rome, Fondazione Memmo, Velázquez, 30 March - 30 June 2001, as attributed to Velázquez, but with the attribution to Velázquez fully endorsed by the exhibition curator Felipe Garín in an addenda on p. 182 of the catalogue.
Literature:
Possibly recorded in an original fragmentary inventory of the collections of the 6th and 7th Marqueses del Carpio (now lost);
Possibly recorded in a transcription of the original Carpio inventory made in around 1802, formerly in the archives of the Duques de Alba (now lost);
Listed in an inventory drawn up following the death of Don Sebastián Martínez in 1800;
Listed in an inventory of the collection of Don Fernando Casado de Torres (date unknown);
Listed in an inventory of the collection of Don Celestino García Fernandez in 1844;
Catalogue des Tableaux Anciens...de M. Le Mis de Salamanca, auction catalogue, Charles Pillet, Paris, 3-6 June 1867, lot 35, p. 27;
National Exhibition of Works of Art, exhibition catalogue, Leeds 1868, p. 298, no. 2911, as hung in the Central (Dudley) Gallery;
Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, exhibition catalogue, London 1871, p. 34, no. 384, as hung in the Lecture Room;
W.B. Scott, Murillo and the Spanish School of Painting, 1873, p. 101, as Murillo;
C.B. Curtis, Velasquez and Murillo, 1883, p. 257, no. 361, as Murillo, St. Justa;
Masters in Art, October 1900, part X, I, p. 35, as Murillo;
Possibly A.M. de Barcia, Catálogo de la Colección de Pinturas del Excmo. Sr. Duque de Berwick y de Alba, 1911, p. 245, under appendix, as Velázquez, Saint Rufina;
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813 - 1912, London 1913, vol. II, p. 844, under 1868, no. 2911, and p. 845, under 1871, no. 384;
A.L. Mayer, 'El Arte español en el Extranjero. Tres Cuadros Interestantes Desconocidos', in Arte Español, 1930, p. 118;
The International Studio, June 1931, p. 6, illustrated on the front cover, as possibly by Velázquez;
A.L. Mayer, Velázquez, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures and Drawings, 1936, p. 12, no. 47, as a lost work;
Lyra, September - October 1948, pp. 61-62, illustrated on the front cover;
Exposición de Obras Maestras Siglo XII al XVII, Colección Paula de Koenigsberg, exhibition catalogue, Buenos Aires, Museo Municipal de Arte Hispano Americano, May - July 1951, p. 19, cat. no. 23, reproduced plate XI, as Murillo, Saint Justa;
J.M. Pita Andrade, 'Mazo que poseyó El Séptimo Marqués Del Carpio', in Archivo Español de Arte, XXV, 1952, p. 223, note 1;
J.M. Pita Andrade, 'Notícias en Torno a Velázquez en el Archivo de la Casa de Alba', in Varia Velázquez, 1960, I, p. 413;
J. López-Rey, Velázquez, A Catalogue Raisonné of his Oeuvre, 1963, pp. 137-38, no. 51;
J. Camón Aznar, Velázquez, 1964, vol. I, p. 228, and vol. II, p. 996;
E. Benezit, Dictionaire des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs, 1966, vol. V, p. 282, as Murillo Santa Justa;
P.M. Bardi, L'opera completa di Velázquez, Milan 1969, p. 114;
D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo, Catálogo Crítico, 1981, vol. II, p. 518, no. 2.258, under 'Obras Discutibles', as Santa Justa;
P. Cherry, Spanish Old Master Paintings, Including Velázquez's Saint Rufina, auction catalogue, New York, Christie's, 29 January 1999, pp. 52-56, lot 206;
A.E. Pérez Sánchez, 'Novedades Velazqueñas', in Archivo Español de Arte, Madrid 1999, no. 287, pp. 372-90 (especially pp. 380-84), reproduced p. 381, figure 9;
J. Brown, 'Velázquez y lo velazqueño: los problemas de las atribuciones', in Boletín del Museo del Prado, vol. XVIII, no. 36, 2000, pp. 51-69 (especially pp. 59-67), reproduced p. 61, as Velázquez (?);
S. Salort & F. Garín, Velázquez, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Fondazione Memmo, 2001, pp. 182-85, reproduced, as attributed to Velázquez, but with the attribution to Velázquez fully endorsed by Felipe Garín in the addenda to p. 182.
Provenance:
Possibly Don Luis Méndez de Haro y Guzmán, 6th Marqués del Carpio (1598 - 1661), as Velázquez, Saint Rufina;
Possibly Don Gaspar Méndez de Haro y Guzmán, 7th Marqués de Eliche y Carpio (1629 - 1687), as Velázquez, Saint Rufina;
Don Sebastián Martínez (1747-1800), Cadiz, in whose posthumous inventory recorded by 1805, as Saint Justa (artist not given), valued at 1,500 reales;
By direct descent in 1800 to his daughter Doña Catalina Martínez; From whom acquired by, or by whom given to, her brother-in-law Don Fernando Casado de Torres, as Velázquez, Saint Justa, valued at 5.000 reales by Don Juan de Rivera (date unknown);
Don Celestino García Fernández, in whose collection recorded in an inventory of 1844, Saint Justa (not recorded if artist given), valued at 10.000 reales by Don José de Madrazo;
Don José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marqués de Salamanca and 1st Conde de Llanos (1811 - 1883);
By whom sold Paris, Charles Pillet (commissaire-priseur), 3-6 June 1867, lot 35, as Velázquez, Saint Clare, for 38.000 francs, to Cooke (on behalf of Lord Dudley);
In the collection of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley and Viscount Ednam (1817 - 1885), by 1868, as Murillo, Saint Justa;
By direct descent to William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley and Viscount Ednam (1867 - 1932), as Murillo, Saint Justa;
His sale, 'The Property of The Right Hon. Viscount Ednam, M.C.', London, Christie's, 17 July 1925, lot 143, as B.E. Murillo, Saint Justa, for 950 guineas to Leggatt;
With Scott and Fowles, New York;
Mr and Mrs Joseph J. Kerrigan, by June 1931;
With Knoedler's, New York;
In the collection of Mrs Esther Slater, Oyster Bay, Long Island;
By whom sold New York, Parke-Bernet, 22 April 1948, lot 17, as Murillo, Saint Justa, for $8,000;
In the collection of Paula de Koenigsberg, Buenos Aires, by 1951;
Private collection, Brasil, from whence sold, 'The Property of a Private Collector', New York, Christie's, 29 January 1999, lot 206, for $8,912,500 (approx. £5,415,600), whence acquired by the present owner.