Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664)

Christ crowning a friar

Details

Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664)
Christ crowning a friar
oil on canvas
39½ x 19¾in. (100.3 x 50.2cm.)

Provenance

Lima, Peru, unidentified monastery, 19th century.
Rosa González Pardo de Peña, Paris, and by descent to the present owners.

Literature

P. Guinard, 'Aportaciones de obras zurbaranescas', Archivo Español de Arte, 1964, no. 145, pp. 112-4, pl. III.
J. Gudiol, Zurbaran, 1977, p. 114, no. 469.

Lot Essay

The saint represented may be Saint Ramon Nonnatus, whom Zurbarán painted on another occasion (see J. Gudiol, op. cit., no. 246, fig. 256).

Please see note to previous lot.

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