Lot Essay
Similar to a painting in the Prado, the present picture was described as a studio work by Angulo (loc. cit.), from a photograph , but later verbally suggested that it might be autograph
Details
Attributed to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Christ the Man of Sorrows
23 3/8 x 19 1/8in. (59.5 x 48.5cm.)
Christ the Man of Sorrows
23 3/8 x 19 1/8in. (59.5 x 48.5cm.)
Provenance
Prince Sciarra Colonna, Rome
Cardial Fesch, Rome and Paris
Eugen Boross, Vienna and New York, 1923, and by descent Felix Lachowski; sale, American Art Association, New York, 20 April 1939, no. 24
Cardial Fesch, Rome and Paris
Eugen Boross, Vienna and New York, 1923, and by descent Felix Lachowski; sale, American Art Association, New York, 20 April 1939, no. 24
Literature
Catalogue of the Cardinal Fesch Collection, 1841, no. 1546
A. Mayer, Murillo, (Klassiker der Kunst), 2nd revised ed., 1923, p. 291, no. 96
G. Terey, Die Murillo - Bilder der Sammlung Eugen Boross in Larchmond [sic], New York, Der Cicerone, XV, 1923, p. 770, illustrated
D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo, 1981, II, p. 448, no. 1556;
III, pl. 566, as Studio of Murillo
A. Mayer, Murillo, (Klassiker der Kunst), 2nd revised ed., 1923, p. 291, no. 96
G. Terey, Die Murillo - Bilder der Sammlung Eugen Boross in Larchmond [sic], New York, Der Cicerone, XV, 1923, p. 770, illustrated
D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo, 1981, II, p. 448, no. 1556;
III, pl. 566, as Studio of Murillo
Exhibited
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Special Loan Exhibition of Spanish Paintings, 1928, p. 44
Jacksonville, Cummer Gallery of Art, Exhibition commemorating the foundation of Saint Augustine, Florida, for the Spanish, 28 Oct. - 20 Nov. 1968, no. 39
Jacksonville, Cummer Gallery of Art, Exhibition commemorating the foundation of Saint Augustine, Florida, for the Spanish, 28 Oct. - 20 Nov. 1968, no. 39