Studio of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco (Crete 1547/8-1614 Toledo)
Studio of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco (Crete 1547/8-1614 Toledo)

Saint Francis receiving the stigmata

Details
Studio of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco (Crete 1547/8-1614 Toledo)
Saint Francis receiving the stigmata
oil on canvas, unframed
41½ x 31½ in. (105.4 x 80 cm.)
Provenance
Said to have been in the National Gallery, Dresden (but not recorded in the 19th-century catalogues).
Joseph E. Sachs, Stockholm; Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1980, lot 116.
Literature
Katalog wer Josef Sachs Sammlung, no. 481, pl. 118.
M. Legendre and A. Hartmann, Domenico Theotocopouli, Paris, 1937, p. 417, as El Greco.
H. Wethey, El Greco and his school, Princetown, 1962, II, p. 219, no. X-259, as 'school of El Greco, early XVII century'.
J. Gudiol, 'Iconography and Chronolgy in El Greco's Paintings of Saint Francis', The Art Bulletin, September 1962, p. 197, as El Greco.
G. Manzini, L'opera completa del Greco, Milan, 1969, p. 101, no. 59c.
J.C. Aznar, Domenico Greco, Madrid, 1970, p. 1369, no. 553, as workshop.

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