Juan de Leví (active 1405) or associate

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Juan de Leví (active 1405) or associate
The Crucifixion, with two prophets
tempera on gold ground panel, with the original integral framing 43¾ x 39 3/8in. (111 x 100cm.)
Provenance
Perriollat Collection, Paris, 1934
Literature
L. de Saralegui, Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Excursiones, XLII, 1934, pp.167-175, as Domingo Valls C. R. Post, A History of Spanish Painting, VI, Cambridge (Mass.), 1935, Part II, pp.596 and 598 and fig.262

Lot Essay

Juan de Leví is documented in a contract of 1403 for an altarpiece at Montalban as being in the process of executing a retable 'of the story of Saint Catherine' for Fernardo Pérez Cavillo, Bishop of Tarazona in Aragon. Post was at first reluctant to accept the identification of that picture with a retable of Saints Lawrence, Prudentius and Catherine still in a chapel of the ambulatory of the cathedral there (op.cit., III, 1930, pp.186-190); he subsequently changed his mind, however, expanding the artist's oeuvre in later volumes (ibid., IV, 1933, Part II, pp.626-30; VIII, 1941, Part II, pp.658-60, and loc.cit.) and describing him as a 'charming exponent of the early stages of the international movement in Aragon'

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